Religion quotes

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.