Quotes
Quotes about Religion
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
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.
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Superstition is ... religion which is incongruous with intelligence.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
