Famous Religion Quotes

A cult is a religion with no political power.
-- Tom Wolfe

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.
-- Francis Bacon

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
-- James Feibleman

An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
-- Robert Burns

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
-- Bible

As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.
-- Samuel Butler

But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
-- Edmund Burke

Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout?
-- Nicolas Boileau Despreaux

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
-- Matthew Arnold

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
-- Thomas Szasz

G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be, Just for a screen.
-- Robert Burns

His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
-- Thomas Carlyle

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
-- Charles Lamb

I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
-- Carl Sandberg

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
-- D H Lawrence

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstein

No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.
-- Book Of Common Prayer