Quotes about Religion
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
— GK Chesterton
Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
— Thomas Jefferson
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
— Charles Colson
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
— John Henry Newman
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
— John Adams
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.
— James Madison