Religion Quotes

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

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