Famous Quotes About religion

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

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