religion quotes

• We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (Jonathan Swift) [religion/love]
• I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. (Bertrand Russell) [religion/civilization & progress]
• My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. (Bertrand Russell) [religion]
• Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. (Benjamin Franklin) [religion]
• One religion is as true as another. (Robert Burton) [religion]
• Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed. (John Galsworthy) [religion/future/life/take]
• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. (Thomas Hardy) [religion]
• Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. (George Santayana) [religion/taste/human/pleasure]
• If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed) (Theodore Dreiser) [religion]
• If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. (Margaret Atwood) [religion/virgin]
• Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. (Francis Bacon) [religion/care/]
• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. (James Baldwin) [vanity/religion/faith]
• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! (William Blake) [wife/church/religion/politics]
• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. (William Blake) [right/religion]
• If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. (Tom Brokaw) [fishing/religion/fishing/high]
• Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. (Charlotte Bronte) [/religion/attack/face]
• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Edmund Burke) [superstition/religion]
• Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. (Edmund Burke) [religion/infidelity]
• People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. (Samuel Butler) [people/religion]
• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. (Thomas Carlyle) [religion]
• Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body. (Joyce Cary) [religion/politics/thing/soul & body]
• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. (Willa Cather) [religion/art/art]
• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [happiness/religion]
• The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. (Eldridge Cleaver) [politics/religion/right/books]
• Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. (Charles Caleb Colton) [religion/ghost]
• There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. (Charles Caleb Colton) [life/philosophy/religion]
• The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. (Denis Diderot) [religion/people/society]
• Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. (Denis Diderot) [society/more/religion]
• 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. (Albert Einstein) [system/character/religion/inspires]
• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Albert Einstein) [science/religion/religion/science]
• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. (Albert Einstein) [religion/power/universe/god]

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