Quotes about Religion

“Toleration is the best religion.”

“Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.”

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”

“A maker of idols is never an idolater.”

“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”

“Religion is love; in no case is it logic.”

“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.”

“I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...”

“It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.”

“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”

“Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!”

“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”

“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”

“And lips say ''God be pitiful,'' who never said, ''God be praised.''”

“My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.”

“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”

“The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.”

“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”

“I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.”

“Give us a religion that will help us to live -- we can die without assistance.”

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.”

“I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.”

“Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.”

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”

“The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”

“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

“To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.”

“Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.”

“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”