- Real religion is no religion at all.
- Lauryn Hill on Religion
- Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
- Paul Tournier on Religion
- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Religion
- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Religion
- Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
- Eddie Izzard on Religion
- Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Religion
- Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
- Alexis Carrel on Religion
- Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
- Pat Buckley on Religion
- Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
- Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Religion
- Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
- Mary Douglas on Religion
- Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Religion
- Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
- Jonathan Sacks on Religion
- Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
- William Robertson Smith on Religion
- Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
- Larry David on Religion
- Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
- Edward Bond on Religion
- Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- John Updike on Religion
- Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
- William Barclay on Religion
- Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- James Madison on Religion
- Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
- Ziggy Marley on Religion
- Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
- Larry Flynt on Religion
- Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair on Religion
- Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
- Anatole France on Religion
- Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Religion
- Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
- George Santayana on Religion
- Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
- Mohammed Naguib on Religion
- Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Religion
- Religion is a mixed blessing.
- John Shelby Spong on Religion
- Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
- Karen Armstrong on Religion
- Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
- Tom T. Hall on Religion
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Richard Dawkins on Religion
- Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Religion
- Religion is all bunk.
- Thomas A. Edison on Religion
- Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
- Neal Boortz on Religion
- Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
- Sigmund Freud on Religion
- Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
- Christopher Hitchens on Religion
- Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
- G. I. Gurdjieff on Religion
- Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
- George Gurdjieff on Religion
- Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Edmund Burke on Religion
- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Religion
- Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
- Bonnie Raitt on Religion
- Religion is induced insanity.
- Madalyn Murray O'Hair on Religion
- Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
- Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
- Kary Mullis on Religion
- Religion is just mind control.
- George Carlin on Religion
- Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
- Victoria Jackson on Religion
- Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Religion
- Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
- Julian Casablancas on Religion
- Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
- Lemuel K. Washburn on Religion
- Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick on Religion
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