1,039 Quotes Regarding Religion


One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin Franklin

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Khalil Gibran

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft

Religion is just mind control.
George Carlin

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama