Quotes about Religion
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
- Frank Herbert
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
- John Adams
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
- Georgia Harkness
Adversity reminds men of religion.
- Livy
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
- A Powell Davies
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
- Laurence Sterne
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
- Victor Hugo
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.
- Muhammad Ali
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
- Edmund Burke
Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.
- Elie Wiesel
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
- James Madison
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
- Thomas Paine