Quotes about Religion

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.