Religion Quotes

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

God has no religion.

Religions are different roads converging on the same point.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

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.

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.