Religion Quotes
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Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
John Tillotson
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
Studs Terkel
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The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.
Joseph Lewis
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I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.
Catherine Hicks
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Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
Stephen Spender
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I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
Emily Raboteau
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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
Immanuel Kant
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Benjamin Carson
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That Islam you see on TV does not represent me, I'm too busy waging jihad against myself, My own nafs are my enemy. I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam, Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand.
Boonaa Mohammed
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What religion is he of?
Why, he is an Anythingarian.
Jonathan Swift
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The Prophet (saw) said, A man follows the religion of his friend; so each one should consider whom he makes his friend.
Abu Dawood
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
Rudyard Kipling
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind,
the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
George Bernard Shaw
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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
William Jay
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Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life.
Elena Ferrante
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
Gautama Buddha
