Famous Quotes About religion

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.