Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

religion

After all, is football a game or a religion? 3 more quotes from Howard Cosell

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. 2 quotes from Toni Cade Bambara

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. 2 quotes from Alfred de Vigny

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. 18 views from Joseph Campbell

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. 3 quotes from Maimonides

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education. 5 thoughts from William Jennings Bryan

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. 105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. 27 quotes from James Madison

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. 6 other sayings from Liberty Hyde Bailey

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. 105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. 8 quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. 8 wisdom & wit from Malcolm Muggeridge

True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. 105 more views from Albert Einstein

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. 23 thoughts from Vincent Van Gogh

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. 10 wisdom & wit from Booker T. Washington

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. 25 more quotes from Charles Baudelaire

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. 8 views from Thomas Hobbes

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous. 16 more quotes from David Hume

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. 6 views from B. R. Ambedkar

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. 70 views from Thomas Jefferson

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. 17 more quotes from John Burroughs

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. 6 other wisdom & wit from Philip James Bailey

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. 20 thoughts from Anatole France

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. 13 wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. 8 quotes from Hosea Ballou

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. 14 quotes from Clarence Darrow

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. 7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. 17 quotes from John Burroughs

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. 7 views from James Anthony Froude

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. 38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. 23 other thoughts from E. W. Howe

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. 53 sayings from Honore de Balzac

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. 22 views from Robert Browning

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. 52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. 15 wisdom & wit from Orson Welles

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. 10 quotes from Patrick Henry

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. 9 views from Jiddu Krishnamurti

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. 2 sayings from Edmond de Goncourt

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. 52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. 6 views from Karl Barth

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. 3 sayings from Paul Tournier

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. 52 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. 3 more quotes from Harvey Milk

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. 5 other quotes from Theodore White

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. 26 other views from Sigmund Freud

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. 6 other sayings from Harry Emerson Fosdick

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. 45 other wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. 9 other sayings from Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. 21 quotes from Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses. 21 other sayings from Karl Marx

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. 6 more views from Karl Barth

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe. 5 more views from Dennis Potter

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. 4 other wisdom & wit from Gregory Bateson

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. 14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Joubert

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! 33 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. 21 thoughts from Karl Marx

The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion. 13 more thoughts from Fred Allen

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. 23 wisdom & wit from Niccolo Machiavelli

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. 10 more sayings from Patrick Henry

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. 3 thoughts from Henry Cabot Lodge

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. 53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. 20 wisdom & wit from Christopher Lasch

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. 47 quotes from George Orwell

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. 57 sayings from Blaise Pascal

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. 58 more views from Henry Ward Beecher

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. 31 sayings from Helen Keller

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. 57 more views from Blaise Pascal

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. 5 more quotes from Alexis Carrel

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. 14 thoughts from Thomas Hardy

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. 20 quotes from Christopher Lasch

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. 15 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. 10 thoughts from William Ralph Inge

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher

We are punished by our sins, not for them. 59 views from Elbert Hubbard

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. 3 quotes from George A. Smith

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! 7 other views from Sydney Smith

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. 10 sayings from John D. Rockefeller

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. 8 more sayings from Benito Mussolini

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. 8 more quotes from Mary Baker Eddy

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. 14 sayings from Robert A. Heinlein

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. 17 other quotes from Calvin Coolidge

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. 8 more sayings from Nathaniel Hawthorne

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. 3 other quotes from Edward Bond

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. 45 sayings from Aldous Huxley

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. 31 other sayings from Eric Hoffer

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. 5 quotes from Oswald Chambers

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. 8 other quotes from Jeremy Taylor

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. 2 other quotes from Hans Urs von Balthasar

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. 11 thoughts from Lucille Ball

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. 50 other wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. 4 wisdom & wit from Felix Adler

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched. 4 views from Guy de Maupassant

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. 50 more quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. 50 other quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. 2 quotes from Sri Aurobindo

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. 15 quotes from Walter Scott

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. 7 wisdom & wit from Jorge Luis Borges

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. 7 more quotes from Jorge Luis Borges

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. 19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. 60 quotes from H. L. Mencken

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. 7 sayings from Swami Sivananda

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. 23 more quotes from T. S. Eliot

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! 6 thoughts from O. Henry

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. 7 quotes from Swami Sivananda

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. 5 views from Frances Wright

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. 3 quotes from Orson Pratt

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. 9 sayings from Elizabeth I

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. 23 quotes from T. S. Eliot

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. 36 other quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. 100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. 100 other views from Mahatma Gandhi

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. 16 views from Paul Valery

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. 103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. 16 more thoughts from Wallace Stevens

Love is my religion - I could die for it. 19 more wisdom & wit from John Keats

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. 2 quotes from Annie Besant

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. 100 other wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. 3 other thoughts from Henri Bergson

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. 8 quotes from Frank Herbert

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. 8 thoughts from Ezra Pound

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. 103 more sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. 25 other quotes from C. S. Lewis

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. 7 wisdom & wit from Mary Astell

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. 14 quotes from Wendell Phillips

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. 10 sayings from Isaac Bashevis Singer

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. 25 other sayings from C. S. Lewis

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. 18 other quotes from Baruch Spinoza

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. 14 sayings from Muhammad Iqbal

Music is my religion. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

My religion lies in my composition. 3 wisdom & wit from John Philip Sousa

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. 78 sayings from Voltaire

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. 32 sayings from William Blake

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. 3 views from Allen Tate

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. 10 more wisdom & wit from Billy Sunday

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. 3 sayings from Cyril Cusack

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. 14 quotes from Laurence Sterne

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. 9 other quotes from Carl Sagan

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. 32 other quotes from William Blake

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. 9 sayings from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. 78 other quotes from Voltaire

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. 32 quotes from Martin Luther

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. 19 wisdom & wit from Jonathan Swift

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. 78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. 14 more quotes from Heinrich Heine

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. 7 quotes from Herbert Read

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. 3 quotes from Johan Huizinga

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion. 5 other quotes from George Whitefield

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. 68 other sayings from Samuel Butler

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. 2 quotes from William Barclay

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. 46 more quotes from George Santayana

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. 4 quotes from Joyce Cary

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. 58 more quotes from Thomas Carlyle

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. 8 thoughts from Matthew Arnold

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. 19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. 46 quotes from George Santayana

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. 75 other sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

Wonder is the basis of worship. 58 other quotes from Thomas Carlyle

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. 67 views from Francis Bacon

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. 19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. 96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome. 2 quotes from Benjamin Whichcote

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. 3 quotes from Pierre Beaumarchais

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. 30 other quotes from Charles Caleb Colton

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. 8 sayings from Ernest Holmes

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. 3 more quotes from Alfred Russel Wallace

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? 10 more quotes from Charles de Secondat

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. 9 sayings from Walter Savage Landor

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. 3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. 2 more views from Johannes Tauler

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. 9 quotes from Swami Vivekananda

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. 23 other views from Paul Cezanne

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. 24 other quotes from Carl Sandburg

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is. 8 other wisdom & wit from Jane Seymour

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. 11 quotes from Meister Eckhart

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. 20 sayings from Thomas Aquinas

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. 67 views from Francis Bacon

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. 37 other sayings from Edmund Burke

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. 10 quotes from Charles de Secondat

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. 5 quotes from E. Stanley Jones

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. 17 other quotes from Friedrich Durrenmatt

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it. 16 other quotes from Alan Watts

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. 5 quotes from Douglas William Jerrold

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. 24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. 37 quotes from Edmund Burke

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. 4 views from Minna Antrim

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. 4 thoughts from Richard Le Gallienne

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. 30 more views from Charles Caleb Colton

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. 36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. 4 quotes from William J. H. Boetcker

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. 24 other views from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. 4 more quotes from Abraham Joshua Heschel

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. 9 other thoughts from Swami Vivekananda

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. 56 views from Khalil Gibran

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. 31 quotes from Thomas Paine

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. 31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. 31 quotes from Thomas Paine

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. 10 quotes from Charles Lamb

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. 47 views from Abraham Lincoln

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. 7 quotes from Galileo Galilei

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. 8 thoughts from Dwight L. Moody

I'm religiously opposed to religion. 73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. 4 quotes from James A. Michener

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. 5 more quotes from Charles Eastman

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. 31 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. 10 views from Ramakrishna

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. 33 sayings from Erma Bombeck

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. 31 views from Thomas Paine

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. 7 quotes from Jeremy Bentham

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. 31 thoughts from Thomas Paine

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. 7 other quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. 31 other views from Thomas Paine

Religion is all bunk. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. 19 more quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. 29 more wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. 5 more quotes from Charles Eastman

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. 7 other wisdom & wit from Galileo Galilei

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. 45 views from John Ruskin

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. 5 other quotes from Charles Eastman

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. 31 quotes from Thomas Paine

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. 8 more quotes from Dwight L. Moody

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. 16 views from Havelock Ellis

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse. 3 quotes from Robert Shea

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. 45 other thoughts from John Ruskin

Toleration is the best religion. 73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. 47 other sayings from Abraham Lincoln

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. 21 quotes from Anais Nin

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. 45 quotes from John Ruskin