Quotes
Quotes about Religion
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
