Religion Quotes
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.
Kevin Costner
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Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
Max Jacob
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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small – minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
Bono
U2
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Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
John Arbuthnot
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It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
Herodotus
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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
Simon Greenleaf
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I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.
Thomas A. Edison
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All true religion must stand on true morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
Jonathan Swift
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Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.
Thomas Hobbes
