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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts on religion

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on religion

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
B. R. Ambedkar on religion

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
John Maynard Keynes on religion

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac on religion

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot on religion

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 on religion

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce on religion

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on religion

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal on religion

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James Madison on religion

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Orson Welles on religion

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler on religion

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Ramakrishna on religion

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin Disraeli on religion

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Epictetus on religion

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke on religion

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke on religion

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody on religion

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise Pascal on religion