1,039 Quotes Regarding Religion


That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.
Lu Yen

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Giordano Bruno

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.
Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.
Edmund Burke

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Jesus Christ

Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
William Cowper

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Stephen Crane

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man...
The Dhammapada

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot

I Thy God am the Light and the Mind which were before substance was divided from Spirit and darkness from Light.
The Divine Pymander

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Frederick II

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
James Harrington

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Frederic Harrison

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Heinrich Heine

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.