Quotes about Religion
Man alone is made in the image of God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
— Martin Luther
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
— Paul Ricoeur
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
— Henry David Thoreau
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
— Henry David Thoreau
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
— Henry David Thoreau
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
— Henry David Thoreau
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher