Religion Quotes
30 quotations about Religion
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.
Toleration is the best religion.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
Authors on Religion
Matthew Arnold
Ambrose Bierce
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Edmund Burke
Chinese Proverb
William Cowper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bob Hope
Elbert Hubbard
Victor Hugo
Dean William R. Inge
Karl Kraus
Joseph De Maistre
Christopher Marlowe
Harriet Martineau
Karl Marx
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Paine
Blaise Pascal