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Quotations About Religion

Related: Faith, Prayer, Christianity, God, Soul

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
Understanding Philosophy, 1973


Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume
Treatise of Human Nature, 1739


Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
Albert Camus
The Fall, 1956


Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
Andy Rooney
Sincerely, Andy Rooney


Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
John Updike
Self-Consciousness, 1989


What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
George Santayana
Reason in Religion


What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
Thomas Jefferson
Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785


To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinthes, 1962


No creed can be stretched to the size of truth; no church can be made as large as man.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays


...for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.
Joshua Harris
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance


Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none.
Friedrich Nietzche
Human, All Too Human, 1879


A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
Essays: Of Atheism, 1625


When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honoré De Balzac
Catherine de Medici expliquée, Souverain


No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
George Bernard Shaw
Androcles and the Lion, 1912


I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
Will Rogers


The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.
Porphyry


Christ manifests his divine leadership in your sincere followership. Christ's followers become true leaders because Christ is the model of true leadership.
Israelmore Ayivor


I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln


A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle.
Latin Proverb


Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard


God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
Theodore L. Cuyler


See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.
Pope John XXIII