1,039 Quotes Regarding Religion


My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
David Herbert Lawrence

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Joseph Joubert

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant

After all, is football a game or a religion?
Howard Cosell

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
David Hume

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
James A. Michener

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
Deepak Chopra

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Jennifer Aniston

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Sojourner Truth

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
Kirstie Alley

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'
Tom Cruise

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton