Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Toleration is the best religion.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

After it is all over the religion of man is his most important possession.

The religious man fears the man of honor scorns to do an ill action

Religion is just mind control

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

If I am right then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven because there is no Heaven. If THEY are right then they will not go to Heaven because they are hypocrites.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Of course there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

Teach a child what is wise that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful that is religion!

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people including fundamentalists are quite intelligent many of them are highly educated and they should be treated with complete respect.

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.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

If all men cannot be brought to the same opinion on morals and religion it is at least worthwhile to give them good reasons for as much as they can be persuaded to accept

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The duration of life is uncertain and the place of habitation is uncertain, but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

Honor and respect all religions equally.

The World is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down, only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Do not belittle any religion or give predominance to any religion.

I was raised in a religious environment and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gun powder Printing and the Protestant religion.

I never will by any word or act bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

We want to answer this classical question 'who am I'? So I think that most of our works are for art or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever by any religion by any sect.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.

Even as you are a citizen of your motherland but respect all countries, also respect all religions equally.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

For that again is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training for it trains people as to how they shall think.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Religions get lost as people do.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it shaping it, and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

I am fascinated by religion.That's a completely different thing from believing in it.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The three most important things a man has are briefly his private parts his money and his religious opinions.

Where knowledge ends religion begins.

There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

You know religion itself Eastern and Western is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

What is marriage is marriage protection or religion is marriage renunciation or abundance is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.

There is a vulgar incredulity which in historical matters as well as in those of religion finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

A name is a label and as soon as there is a label the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing and instead of living by a theme of ideas people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion.

All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism of running after little joys.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction from the wheel to the skyscraper everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The essence of all religions is One. Surrender is the main duty of everyone. Surrender means the feeling of oneness I and God are One. Why? The reason is that the One who is present in you is present in me.

Honor every religion, each is a pathway to the one God.

He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious but the life of a man who is destitute of religion and virtues is void of any blessing.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

The followers of each religion call upon One God who is omnipresent and listens to their prayers be they from any race or whatever language they speak, but it is the same God who confers happiness on all of mankind.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid disturbed environments.

To see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

It is ruinous to be familiar with the king fire the religious preceptor and a woman. To be altogether indifferent of them is to be deprived of the opportunity to benefit ourselves hence our association with them must be from a safe distance.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

You are all members of the same family bound by the Religion of Love.

Ideas of superiority and inferiority arise only in a heart corrupted by egoism. If someone argues that he is higher or his religion is holier it proves that he has missed the significance of his faith.

When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction, like that of religion, which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away the people will attack the great and after the great they will fall upon the rich.