Religion Quotes

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way. – Epictetus

“Religion is like a pair of shoes…..Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.”― George Carlin

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”― Martin Luther King, Jr

“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.”― C.S. Lewis

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people._KARL MARX

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”― Albert Einstein

“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money!”― George Carlin

“God has no religion.”― Mahatma Gandhi

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. – Dalai Lama

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. – Alexander Chase

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”― Abraham Lincoln

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. – Oscar Wilde

I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it. – Joe Mullally

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”― C.S. Lewis

“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”― Napoleon Bonaparte

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”― Albert Camus

All religions are branches of one big tree.__GEORGE HARRISON

Never be angry with your neighbor because his religious views differ from your own; for all the branches of a tree do not lean the same way.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.__EMILE ZOLA

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated._George Washington

All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties._MIKHAIL BAKUNIN

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”― Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.”_Sigmund Freud

When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that’s a good way to live.__LISA RANDALL

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”― Garrison Keillor

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”― C.S. Lewis

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”― Mahatma Gandhi

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”― Dan Brown

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths. – Muhammad Ali

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. – Malcolm X

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”― Abraham Lincoln

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”― John Lennon

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.- Albert Einstein

“The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”― Mark Twain

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”-Buddha

We use religion like a trolley-car–we ride on it only while it is going our way._AUSTIN O’MALLEY

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”― Abraham Lincoln

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
_JONATHAN SWIFT

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.Edmund Burke

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion._ Francis Bacon

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry._HOSEA BALLOU

One religion is as true as another.–ROBERT BURTON

Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say “you are a sinner”, and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we’ll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky._Timothy Leary

It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were utterly mistaken, and that the sacred records of their country are but collections of myths and fables.
__ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL

“Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”― Jon Stewart

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”― Christopher Hitchens

Religion is like a knife. If you use it the wrong way you can cut yourself.__ERIC WEINER

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”― Robert M. Pirsig

The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knowledge.__GEORGE WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”― Frank Sinatra

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”― Friedrich Nietzsche

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance._CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Religion is simply a generic name for the search for happiness.

Religion is a sovereign balm to the penitent; but burning coals to the scoffer._William Scott Downey

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality … the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.__DAN SIMMONS

Religion is … being as much like God as man can be._Benjamin Whichcote

But Marge, what if we picked the wrong religion? Each week we’d just make God madder and madder.
HOMER SIMPSON

Religion is the clearest telescope through which we can behold the beauties of creation, and the good of our Creator.__WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY