Quotes about Religion

For the first two or three centuries there were no systems of composed forms of prayer used in any church whatever, as hath been proved.

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!

For what is a god but what we go to again and again?

Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

At this time of great need for values such as goodness, virtue, and modesty, religion is increasingly targeted as the barrier instead of being embraced as a savior. This lie needs to be rejected---not by words, but by example.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it's violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

When God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly.