Religion quotes

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.

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.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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.

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

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

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

After all, is football a game or a religion?

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

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

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

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.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.