Quotes about Religion
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
— Anne Frank
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
— Thomas Paine
Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.
— Dennis Prager
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
— Eugene Peterson
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
— Thomas Paine
Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
— Philip Appleman
The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.
— Francis Frangipane
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
— Desmond Tutu
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
— Elbert Hubbard
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
— Alexander Hamilton