Quotes
Quotes about Religion
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."
One religion is as true as another.
As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.
So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sects, That maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after every swarm its own.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
