Famous Religion Quotes - Famous Quotes about Religions
A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus
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By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
- James George Frazer
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
- Novalis
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
- Arthur Wellesley
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Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
- Kingsley Amis
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I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
- Bob Hope
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
- Vince Vaughn
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I would give nothing for that man's religion whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Rowland Hill
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
- Mary Baker Eddy
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If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
- Marquis de Lafayette
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In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
- Robert Runcie
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Music is my religion.
- Jimi Hendrix
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No amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. [Dissenting Opinion in Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)]
- William Rehnquist
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Philosophy and Religion—what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
- William Golding
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
- Brendan Behan
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Religion is induced insanity.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
- Franz Werfel
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Karl Marx
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.
- Dennis Potter
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.
- Saint Augustine
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The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
- Douglas Hogg
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
- Arthur Wellesley
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The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
- James Anthony Froude
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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
- Lorraine Hansberry
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The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
- Edward Gibbon
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
- E. M. Forster
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To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
- Kathe Kollwitz
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