Religion Quotes

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.

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

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

Religions are different roads converging on the same point.

God has no religion.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I doubt not that it [the Bible] is really ... the best cure for the Blues could one but take it according to the truth.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, Religion .

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit ... we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.