RELIGION QUOTES
quotations about religion
Religion is simply a generic name for the search for happiness.
JAMES GASTON
"Is religion good or bad for society? Two experts debate", Catholic News Agency, February 6, 2016
But Marge, what if we picked the wrong religion? Each week we'd just make God madder and madder.
HOMER SIMPSON
The Simpsons
Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
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
Criticism of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies
We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Never be angry with your neighbor because his religious views differ from your own; for all the branches of a tree to not lean the same way.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
All religions are branches of one big tree.
GEORGE HARRISON
introduction, Krsna
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
Treasury of Thought
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
DAN SIMMONS
The Rise of Endymion
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE
letter to Wm. Smith, January 29, 1795
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... logic can be happily tossed out the window.
STEPHEN KING
The Stand
Science and Religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
DAN BROWN
Angels & Demons
Religion is the clearest telescope through which we can behold the beauties of creation, and the good of our Creator.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well.
FRANK SINATRA
Playboy Magazine, February 1962
Behold what is in the heavens and the earth! But revelations and warnings avail not folk who will not believe.
KORAN
Surah Yunus: 101
One religion is as true as another.
ROBERT BURTON
Anatomy of Melancholy
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
Discover Magazine, July 2006
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
EMILE ZOLA
attributed, 2000 Years of Disbelief
No matter how fallacious a religion may be, its destruction never satisfies unless replaced by another.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts