Quotation Explorer - 'Religion'

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer. - Marcellin Berthelot

Mammon is still the god of the world's largest and most powerful religion. - Marty Rubin

I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people are silent, we begin to sing the song of the ocean and then we fly away together ~ - Grigoris Deoudis

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time. - Malcolm X

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion. - David Lion el Lloyd

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. - Emmett F. Fields

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge. - Idries Shah

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother? - Shannon L. Alder

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. - Bill Gates

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. - Richard Dawkins

Religion reminds me of a lace condom. While lovingly crafted, it’s not designed for pleasure; unless inflated with fervour, it collapses; one size does not fit all; and no matter how many times you dunk it in holy water, it will not prevent misconceptions or contagion. - Lowestoft Thellow

We need to track back ISIS ideology to its origins, so as to pull it up by its roots. Then, and only then, we can establish a whole new understanding of the righteous religion rather than mere individuals’ interpretations that satisfy clerks desires and fantasies. - مُضر آل أحميّد

No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human. - Sixeye

As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? - Rowan Atkinson

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet. - Margaret Mead

Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion. - David G. McAfee

Let people learn to love beyond religion and live beyond death. - Anjali Prabodh

Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an. - Jim Al-Khalili

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion. - Arthur C. Clarke

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This’ is not called a religion, ‘This’ is called a science (vignan). Religion keeps changing, science does not change. - Dada Bhagwan

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. - C.S. Lewis

religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism. - John Stuart Mill

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion. - L. Ron Hubbard

Do you belong to the religion that whip, stone and murder people; because they wanted to enjoy their life. - M.F. Moonzajer

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic. - Emil Cioran

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness. - Dalai Lama XIV

If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized. - G. K. Chesterton

I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists. - David Silverman

Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease. - Debasish Mridha

Myth is what we call other people's religion. - Joseph Campbell

I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India! - Vinayak Muraleedharan

Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, butreligious dogma converts a good person to an evil person. - Debasish Mridha

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

People who change their religion should face the death penalty. - Zakir Naik

Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are 'active.' There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose religion at all, or who are simply not all are interested in discussing belief or lack thereof. - David G. McAfee

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.' - C. S. Lewis

When the mind gets a solution [settlement], it is considered religion. It is considered irreligion when the mind does not get a solution. - Dada Bhagwan

What does religion say? It says that if you care for others then you will meet others who will care for you and if you hit others, you will meet others who will hit you. This is what all relative religions say. - Dada Bhagwan

The greatest religion you can ever have throughout your entire existence, is Love. - Abhijit Naskar

A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion. - Zack W. Van

Culture is religion externalized. - Douglas W. Phillips

God has no religion. - Mahatma Gandhi

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years - FM-2030

We unfortunately identify people by their religion, but my question is that, how can you say that we got different religious when we all smile in a same language..! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. - Richard Dawkins

Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Science without a religion is nothing and the reverse...", but now some people say that he has said and that he doesn't believe in religion and in god!? (That's call reverse...) - Deyth Banger

Vision is the end of religion. - William Blake

There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X

I have watched a lot of films... about war... but still I can't understand what's the purpose of war???Killing inocent people??About religion... so my god says that killing other people isn't acceptable... but your is acceptable???WTF - Deyth Banger

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005] - Philip Pullman

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism. - Dion Fortune

You are not insane if you believe in things that don't exist. You are insane if you are the only one believing in it. This is the difference between religion and insanity. - Knut Nærum

The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories. - Abhijit Naskar

Buddhism is more a philosophy for living rather than a religion or dogma - it's about being awake, free from illusions and fear, so that compassion and loving kindness permeates all of our relationships. - Charlotte Kasl

MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. - Ambrose Bierce

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. - Sean O'Casey

That which frees one from bondage is the right religion. - Dada Bhagwan

Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity. - Debasish Mridha

Love is our religion. Love is our light. It is the only thing that gives us any hope. - Kamand Kojouri

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion. - Richard Dawkins

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. - Thomas Paine

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. - Ruth Hurmence Green

Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand). - Dada Bhagwan

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. - Anthony de Mello

The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it. - Lemmy Kilmister

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. - Sean S. Kamali

In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept writing poetry across my life. (Beyond Religion, p. 81) - David N. Elkins

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. - Arthur C. Clarke

The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance. - Sherman A. Jackson

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor. - Ramsey Clark

Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all. - Therese Doucet

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion. - Amory B. Lovins

What," "how," "when," etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask "why" is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect. - Raheel Farooq

Religion without humanity is poor human stuff. - Sojourner Truth

Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature. - Dada Bhagwan

All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion - M.F. Moonzajer

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe. - Frank Herbert

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings. - Abhijit Naskar

Your RELIGION does not make you a good person. Your BEHAVIOR does. - Tanya Masse

Religion is the only thing left in the world that is free, which is why a lot of people 'find it.' - Jimmy Buffett

Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it. - Raheel Farooq

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal. - Connor Franta

The world holds two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men withoutintelligence.poet - ~ Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri, 973-1057, Syrian

No matter what kind of circumstances come together, if one’s stillness is not shaken and his goal does not change; he is known to have attained religion. - Dada Bhagwan

Religion is textbook, Spirituality is soul work. - Kaitlin D.S. Cammie

We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God. - Sunday Adelaja

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. - Daniel Radcliffe

I believe only in the religion which spreads the word of nonjudgmental love. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice. - M.F. Moonzajer

Religion is the politics of faith - pumpjackdude

A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation. - Hosea Ballou

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection. - Chanakya

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion. - M.F. Moonzajer

How is it that when we see politics permeate every life sector we call it totalitarianism and when we see religion everywhere we call it theocracy, but when commerce dominates everything we call it liberty? - Benjamin Barber

The Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansBecause of peace, by peace, in peace. - Petra Hermans

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. - Kahlil Gibran

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. - Michael Shermer

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish. - Pansy Schneider-Horst

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. - Anonymous

Love is your religion; the whole world is your temple. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment - Kurt Vonnegut

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". - Robert Millikan

Religion is a natural phenomenon of the human mind, but today, in the hands of theoretical bloodsucking religious preachers it has become a lifeless mockery. Now is the time that you take back religion from those intellectual idiots and place it where it belongs, in the temple of your inner cosmos. - Abhijit Naskar

To be honest, i know noting about religion, since the world was created thousand of years ago, am just 30 years of age, and have stopped asking questions about how things came to being, but the truth about what i know is that the truth does not exit because i know noting - lanre efizie

one should not embrace religion because they are born into it,one should embrace religion because they have faith in it.Ghana2016 - Gabriel O Gabriels

The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument. - Asma Naqi

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. - Dan Simmons

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. - Thomas Szasz

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire

As ages passed we the people, were all blinded and misled in their ventures, by the heralds of the past. In the art of suppression apartheid and slavery were born and raised. In the final stage we established our earth as a drain of fuel and the religion of money made his appearance. - Nynke Visser

In the past imagination and enjoyment were the religions. What is religion? It is the evolution of life power. What a man is wanting to know? He always wants to know the infinite power latent in his body. See what an immense power this human body holds! - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

Faith moves mountains. Religion strip-mines them. - J.M. Williams

When kindness is your religion, then caring is your prayer. - Debasish Mridha

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex. - Craig Ferguson

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. - Luther Burbank

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. - Margaret Mead

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither. - Steve McVey

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. - Thomas Jefferson

We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love. - Debasish Mridha

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus. - Alisa Hope Wagner

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics. - Lyle Wesley Dorsett

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. - D.H. Lawrence

Love is my religion, love is my destiny. - Debasish Mridha

[It] has been said that the difference between Greek and Israelite religion was that the Greeks worshiped the 'holiness of beauty' whereas the Jews worshiped 'the beauty of holiness. - Everett Ferguson

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self). - Dada Bhagwan

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. - Samuel Johnson

The beauty of the infantry is its ability to truly teach tolerance. At the lowest level, when it is simply a matter of survival to count on everyone around you, regardless of religion or skin color, the only logical option is to ignore the differences. - Adam Fenner

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference. - Nelson Mandela

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness. - John Wesley

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wanda - Ouida

Men get drunk and boast, or they get religion and repent. - Ellen O' Connell

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. - Mark Twain

It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim; Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. - Habeeb Akande

I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion. - Stephen Hawking

I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories. - Michael Bassey Johnson

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion. - Debasish Mridha

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there. - Vine Deloria Jr.

Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands. - Stefan Molyneux

The maxim of illusory religion runs: 'Fear not; trust in God and he will see that none of the things you fear will happen to you'; that of real religion, on the contrary, is: 'Fear not, the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of. - Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola

I think religion is a neurological disorder. - Bill Maher

The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. - Kathleen Norris

I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself. - Bill Maher

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. - Mark Twain

My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud! - C. JoyBell C.

For once in life i want no one to judge me ,not my parents not my friends no one..For once in life i want to do what i want and live everyday like no tomorrow will come .For once in life i want to know the purpose we are here . I know its not money, no religion ,no rich and poor - kanav sharma

To see happiness of others, that is what is our religion. - Dada Bhagwan

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. - Sam Harris

It's a cycle... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs. - Steve Maraboli

The romanticism of struggle is over. What remains are the utterly naked facts. The cult of personality and its collapse. Rethinking of everything. The masks are off (the mask of religion, the mask of heroism…). - Sonallah Ibrahim

Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists. - David G. McAfee

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side. - Dada Bhagwan

The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world. - Georgia Harkness

It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion. - Abhijit Naskar

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion. - Publius Papinius Statius

For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours. - Silas Sparkhammer

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoléon Bonaparte

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion. - David L. Lloyd

Every religion should be in favor of humankind. - Santosh Kalwar

Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always. - honeya

Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable. - Quentin R. Bufogle

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. - Oscar Wilde

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. - Jean Baptiste Montegut

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism; but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Sir Francis Bacon

Today’s "religious freedom" policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all. - DaShanne Stokes

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. - Mahatma Gandhi

The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict. - Madeleine Albright

The worship of power is an old religion. - George Santayana

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion. - Denis Diderot

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no placein the endeavor of science. - Carl Sagan

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. - H. L. Mencken

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. - Douglas Adams

Both porn and religion distort a person’s perspectives on women. - Jesse Dangerously

We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! - Widad Akreyi

In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday. - Shannon L. Alder

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art - Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is more beautiful when it brings out the goodness in a person. - Gugu Mona

I Will Follow Anyone And Tell EveryoneHow They Abduct...And Torture ChildrenIn the Name Of Religion - Widad Akreyi

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. — Mother Jones November/December 1997. - Huston Smith

We talk relationship but we live religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion - Mark Cowper-Smith

Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d'espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu'une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu'une femme intelligente vaut un homme intelligent. C'est une verite simple. - Marguerite Yourcenar

Religion is a good time pass, better than philosophy, and a million times better than love; love is a wastage of an era. - Aporva Kala

If religion is the cornerstone of morality, how come I so often find myself explaining why I don’t hate god to someone who’s expressed hatred for atheists, scientists, feminists, gays, intellectuals, and all other forms of infidels? - Lindsey Brown

If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity. - David G. McAfee

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. - Charles Lamb

I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Matt Groening

Have a religion but don't let religion have you! - Janina Lea Dela Peña

Evil can't be scientifically defined: it's an illusory moral concept that doesn't exist in nature. Its origins and connotations have been inextricably been linked to religion and mythology. - Spencer Reid

The Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansI respect my mission as I respect myself till the end.December 6, 1972 - May 2053 - Petra Hermans

Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it's my religion. There's the idea that you can't truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you've hurt yourself? I'm still figuring out who I am, but I know that I'm not who I was. - brendon urie

Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion. - Dada Bhagwan

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. - Clifford Geertz

Such evil deeds could religion prompt. - Lucretius

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? - Carl Sagan

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. - Michael Shermer

The Soul is neither a Jain nor a Vaishnav. The Soul is Vitarag (free from attachment). This is the religion of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones). - Dada Bhagwan

In order to adopt any religion or philosophy, one has to ignore certain basic concrete realities. - Marty Rubin

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God. - Bono

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. - Theodore Dalrymple

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

A history has not been made by you.History made you.The Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansThe Religion Of The Blue CircleAmen - Petra Hermans

Religion can only do two things for mankind; turn them into monster or stupid. - M.F. Moonzajer

There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Every religion which does not concern itself with Science is mere tradition, and that is not the essential. Therefore science, education and civilization are most important necessities for the full religious life.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there. - Emanuel Swedenborg

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. - Bertrand Russell

If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world - M.F. Moonzajer

The problem is not religion or God. The actual problem is authoritarianism, mixed with the desire to angrily impose one’s personal apparently idealistic beliefs on others. - Abhijit Naskar

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. - Cicero

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion. - M.F. Moonzajer

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it. - G.K. Chesterton

Religion is a defense against the experience of God. - Carl Jung

There is no compulsion in religion.

To respect the borders of love is to respect the borders of life.The Religion Of The Blue CircleReligious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansNovember 2, 2016 - Petra Hermans

Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power. - Thomas Wolfe

It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being. - Anum Sattar

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion! - Harvey Milk

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. - James Feibleman

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. - Howard Stern

Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul). - Dada Bhagwan

The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!In all honesty, hate has no fate. But greed does it needs money, its faith. - Zarina Bibi

Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion! - Mehmet Murat ildan

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise. - Michael Foley

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion. - Duop Chak Wuol

All sorts of darkness and evil are now hiding themselves under the umbrella of religion, Christianity, church etc. - Sunday Adelaja

Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear. - Anonymous

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness. - Zach Weiner

(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change. - Joseph Bottum

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. - Hermann Bondi

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. - Ambrose Bierce

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. - Kary Mullis

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. - Salman Rushdie

Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery. - M.F. Moonzajer

Men may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are public servants. - Glenn Beck

The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both. - Robert A. Heinlein

La religion est une insulte à la dignité humaine. Que ce soit avec ou sans elle, il y aura toujours des gens bien qui font de bonnes choses, et des mauvais qui font de mauvaises choses. Mais pour que des gens bien agissent mal, il faut la religion. - Steven Weinberg

i am my religion. my belief is love. god is within [self]. - The Nyghtlie Poet

Religion begins from the time man starts to give happiness to others. - Dada Bhagwan

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see - John Lennon

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. - Honore De Balzac

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! - Christopher Marlowe

To eat, drink, arise, awake etc. are all religion (dharma) of the body. One has not come into one’s own Self Religion (atma dharma) even for a second. Had he done so, he would never ever leave God. - Dada Bhagwan

Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there. - Dada Bhagwan

If you can sell a Religion, you can sell Anything. - Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

Slaves of religion or slaves of technology, what difference does it make? - Marty Rubin

If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center? - Judy Blume

Don't judge people on their Religion, Family Or Country they live ... Judge People On Their Nature..!! - Sagar Pandit

Religion has a good place and it has its good people. - Garry Marshall

Keep thy religion to thyself. - George Carlin

People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really proud of being an Atheist. - M.F. Moonzajer

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion. - Immanuel Kant

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. - Albert Einstein

Religion is the opium of the poor - Ernest Hemingway

I show how much of the wars of religion involved Catholics killing Catholics, Lutherans killing Lutherans, and Catholic-Protestant collaboration. (Page 10 The Myth of Religious Violence) - William Cavanaugh

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. - George Carlin

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York. He swore that all other religions were gammon, And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon. Jared Oopf - Ambrose Bierce

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity. - Yann Martel

I am not an advocate for religion. I only advocate for sweet general harmony. - Abhijit Naskar

It is in the consideration of Love as the director of your behavior, that all the laws of any religion are fulfilled. - Genevieve Gerard

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks. - William Faulkner

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths. - Carla VanKoughnett

I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THING I DO NOT WHAT MY COMMUNITY OR RELIGION DOES. - merlin8thomas

If religion is against homosexuality, then it is against the will and happiness of people. - M.F. Moonzajer

For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless. - Sean Kamali

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness. - Hannah More

"Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy. - William Ralph Inge

Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem. - Marty Rubin

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power. - Thomas Wolfe

​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion. - Abhijit Naskar

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion. - Mahavira

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. - Mahatma Gandhi

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this. - Immanuel Kant

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

The aurora of humanity will begin when we learn that love is our only power and kindness is our ineffable religion. - Debasish Mridha

Where there is the slightest insistence, there is no religion there! - Dada Bhagwan

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science. - Debasish Mridha

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely error, then it is one of monumentally tragic proportions—and should be vigorously opposed. - Steve Allen

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. - George Bernard Shaw

I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God! - Tunk

The Witch 2015, has shown how religion make us, and when does it put us. How just by one religion a lot of people live in the lie! - Deyth Banger

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. - Philip Pullman

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell. - Martin Luther King Jr.

La religion n'est pas un pont entre Dieu et l'homme, c'est une Grande Muraille de Chine entre eux! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

It is the ultimate religion, through which the son, the Father and all elements of the universe become unified. - Abhijit Naskar

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural. - David Gibson

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. - Aldous Huxley

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell. - William Booth

If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Atheists say that religion is like wearing shackles. Religion sets forth laws that govern how we act, and countries set forth laws that govern how we act. Yet only one is like wearing shackles. - S.G

Religion is most often a curse; it teaches us to hate others. - Debasish Mridha

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. - Peter Atkins

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music. - Igor Stravinsky

Religion has to be protected; difference of opinion is not to be protected. - Dada Bhagwan

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoléon Bonaparte

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like. - Ben Midland

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Besant

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein

As long as this belief, ‘I am the doer’ is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state. - Dada Bhagwan

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion - Francis Bacon

I never knew what it meant being a slave until I quitted religion - Moses Tiko Lungu

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church....Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." - Paul Tillich

Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception. - Debasish Mridha

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart, is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness. - Dalai Lama XIV

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. - George Bernard Shaw

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. - Martin Luther King Jr.

True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying. - Abhijit Naskar

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. - Bede Griffiths

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion. - Pope Benedict XVI

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. - Thomas Jefferson

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another. - George Gordon Byron

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion. - M.F. Moonzajer

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. - Victor J. Stenger

If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear. - Madeleine L'Engle

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationalism, or religion.

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. - Jack Steinberger

It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian. - Seraphim Rose

Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins. - Dada Bhagwan

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better. - Daniel C. Dennett

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. - Alfred North Whitehead

Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there. - Bonnie Raitt

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God's precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian. - J.C. Ryle

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of Self. - Brad Pitt

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Jesus is great -- is there a better role model? No. It's religion, it's the people who get in between -- the bureaucracy, you know. ... It's the way people abuse Jesus. Was there ever a greater victim of name dropping? - Bill Maher

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. - Carl Sandburg

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. - Augustus Hare

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe. - Elie Wiesel

Hallucinogens then do the same job as religion - they provide proof of unity, which is still the only known cure for fear of death. - Steven Kotler

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. - Khushwant Singh

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. - Jon Stewart

I believe that religion can make a well-rounded person, or it can make an idiot. What we've go going on here is an idiot.

I love only the god whose religion is kindness. - Debasish Mridha

Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage. - Abhijit Naskar

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science. - Virchand Gandhi

Religion is the biggest drama, the man has ever written and the God is the best character, the man has ever played that people are still applauding for _Idiotneil - Neil Jain

I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond - Carolyn Jessop

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind. - George Carlin

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words? - Chuck Austen

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'. - Mary Daly

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Treaty with Tripoli, Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; - U.S. Congress

May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title. - Dee Dee M. Scott

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion. - Dalai Lama XIV

Religion is the world's label for following God. But, it is a one-on-one, daily and personal relationship that God seeks from all of us. - Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

I am scared of the day, when they turn atheism into another religion for controlling masses. - M.F. Moonzajer

Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands. - Spurgeon, Charles H.

And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves. - David Dark

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind. - Abhijit Naskar

The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven’t done. - M.F. Moonzajer

Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science; because religion lies and science can’t. - M.F. Moonzajer

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile. - Noam Chomsky

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. - M.F. Moonzajer

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allan Poe

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. - Voltaire

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. - Bertrand Russell

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base... - D.H. Lawrence

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - William Ralph Inge

Religion, as it is generally taught all over the world, is said to be based upon faith and belief, and, in most cases, consists only of different sets of theories, and that is the reason why we find all religions quarrelling with one another. - Abhijit Naskar

Politics is killing religion. Religion has become a political tool of division rather than a divine tool of faith and unity. This attack of politics on religion is the real sin we are currently suffering from! - Mahmoud Own

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind. - Hemant Mehta

Without religion or God, what is the meaning of life?" Is like asking, 'Without shoes, what is the meaning of feet'. - Andrea L'Artiste

Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can't control his anger and believes no one else is entitled to their own opinion or beliefs . - Mamie Thornbrue

I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice. - M.F. Moonzajer

Cosmic Ordering is neither a religion nor an elaborate program. You have everything within you to succeed: right attitude and right intentions. - Stephen Richards

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... - H.P. Lovecraft

It's sad that several political parties still count the dead, the starving, the unemployed by their religion, caste, creed and sect. The young generation needs to engage in politics of right vs wrong and not right vs left. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. - George Bernard Shaw

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit. Max Lucado

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx

Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times. - Abhijit Naskar

True religion is that which does not let you stumble. - Dada Bhagwan

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. - Stephen Hawking

Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. - A.W. Tozer

It will take centuries to disconnect people from an addiction like religion; no matter how bad and disastrous it could be, but addiction is the worst of all. - M.F. Moonzajer

In ancient times, determinism rested on a belief in an omniscient God. Today, it is not old-time religion, but, rather, our culture's newfound faith - science - that challenges the belief in free will. - Jeffrey M. Schwartz

God save us from religion. - David Eddings

We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion. - Jeanne D'Albret

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. - Richard Feynman

PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress. - Ambrose Bierce

I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear,Sin and Doubt - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge. - Lionel Suggs

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. - Robert A. Heinlein

Religion is a distraction from true education. - Richard Dawkins

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion - Steven Weinberg

Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind. - Debasish Mridha

All religions are correct but the religion that searches for ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Who is the doer?’ is on the last final path of religion. And which knows this ‘Who’ is the final religion. - Dada Bhagwan

No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion. - Abhijit Naskar

Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak. - David W. Earle

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. - Winston S. Churchill

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one. - George Gaylord Simpson

I’m afraid, my blue-skinned friend - that matters of religion are absolute. True believers cannot be reasoned with. You either agree with their beliefs or you accept that you will be in eternal conflict with them.’"~Saul KarzaDeathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage - Martyn Stanley

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain! - Mehmet Murat ildan

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. - Henry David Thoreau

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be. - Emanuel Swedenborg

What is the meaning of Religion? The revelation of the hidden and unknown power of this human body, and to know that infinite power of this human body is the religion. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. - L. Ron Hubbard

Don’t mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Religion is a set of rituals. - Debasish Mridha

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. - Dalai Lama XIV

Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied. - Kedar Joshi

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. - Oscar Wilde

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages. - Ambrose Bierce

Where there is no peace; there is not the slightest religion there. - Dada Bhagwan

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection. - Robert F. Kennedy

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil. - William Hageman

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian. - Fidel Castro

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. - Nathaniel Branden

It is necessary for the future scientists interested in the field of Neurotheology, to have a bit naïve approach towards the whole idea of God and religion beyond the conventional labels of religion and atheism. - Abhijit Naskar

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. - John Ruskin

If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one. - John D. Barrow

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. - Gary Zukav

When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish. - Abhijit Naskar

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. - Ramakrishna

No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that. - Pamela Morris

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. - Abraham Lincoln

Christianity is called the religion of pity. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion is to be realized, not read or taught. - Abhijit Naskar

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back. - Bono

When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some. - Harry A. Blackmun

It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied. - Santosh Kalwar

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. - George Santayana

With religion we divide people. With unconditional love we bring them under the same umbrella. - Debasish Mridha

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. - George Washington

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness. - Debasish Mridha

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either. - M.B. Dallocchio

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose. - Clarence Darrow

Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines. - Abhijit Naskar

Religion isn't bad, it's our consciousness relativity to religion. There's a reason Mahatma Ghandi said "I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." The principle is that religion doesn't make 'you'. 'You' make your 'religion'. - Matthew Donnelly

The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media. - Sunday Adelaja

JOSS-STICKS, n. Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. - Ambrose Bierce

Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting for God to save them. - Alina Baker

Religion is what you do with your solitude. - William Temple

In every religion; a true love is the love for the God, in mine it is for you. - M.F. Moonzajer

All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in the name of religion, is a complete contradiction. No pure religious leader would ever support this. - The Truth

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there. - M.F. Moonzajer

Terrorism has no religion is a theory, and the religion of terrorism is a real threat and practical thing. - Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'

Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself. - Dada Bhagwan

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley

Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice. - Daya Kudari

It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file.

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with. - Shannon L. Alder

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. - Baruch Spinoza

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. - Kahlil Gibran

The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love. - Debasish Mridha

Forget Gods, Religion, Caste, Sex, Species, Everything like every single thing - Sense it, Feel it and just be Human ! - Alamvusha

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. - Carl Sagan

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. - Eric Hoffer

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The soul was the first temple; love was the first religion. - Matshona Dhliwayo

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well. - Damien Hirst

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122) - David N. Elkins

Sports has no bounds, no race, no religion, no caste and no creed. Keep out all this from sports. Sports are pure joy, do not ruin with your ignorance - Sammy Toora

Heart and character have no gender, religion nor color. - Charles Spencer King

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion. - David L. Lloyd

For what religion has never had sects? Rest assured, Extremism is always the derrière. - Criss Jami

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers. - Dalai Lama XIV

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. - William Bates

Trance is not a type of music..,it is a religion. - Saad Dodokh

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas. - Semen Frank

Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists - Daya Kudari

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. - Mark Twain

I have no other religion than kindness. - Debasish Mridha

For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The best ‘apologia’ (defense) of Jesus Following is your life ...not talking religion! ~ gfp '42© Gary F. Patton - http://diigo.com/0odk2

The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal. - Rebecca McKinsey

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. - Giannina Braschi

Proof' is the hallmark of religion. - Bill Gaede

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power. - Eric Metaxas

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism. - Albert Einstein

If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god’s favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity. - Debasish Mridha

The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth. - Abhijit Naskar

We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color. - Paul Bamikole

​Through ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear. - Abhijit Naskar

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back. - T. K. Decker

If you really want to know why atheists resent religion so much, try lying to someone for 10-20 years. If you don't have that kind of time, just ask my ex-wife. - Captain Perverto

If there is any god, then love is his religion and love is his prayer. - Debasish Mridha

Humanism is my Religion, Good is my adoption , Bad is my Elimination, Acceptance is my Decision, Love is My Gift , Relation is my Affection ,Truth is My Strength, Help Is My Credit , Knowledge is My Treasure - jagan kumar

If Heaven actually exists, I don't need anyone to be my real estate broker. After all, what is religion but an attempt to sell you a share in the ultimate gated community? - Quentin R. Bufogle

Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe. - Luther Burbank

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. - Margaret Cho

Love is my religion, kindness is my prayer, forgiveness is my temple, and peace is my abode. - Debasish Mridha

La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite. - George Bernard Shaw

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. - Aristotle

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don’t be afraid, you don’t fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Maybe that is the purest and most radical kind of religion – simple attention. Present-moment awareness. Instead of a belief system, awareness sees through all beliefs. - Joan Tollifson

We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function. - Sunday Adelaja

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down. - Marvin J. Ashton

Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that. - Steve Maraboli

SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. - Ambrose Bierce

Without a Uniform Civil Code, labelling India be Secular nation is just a illusion.Uniform Civil Code is necessary for India so that t same laws r valid for every citizen without taking religion into consideration. - Vikram Singh Slathia

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience - Christopher Marshall

One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war - Francis Collins

God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. - Woodrow Wilson

A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about again to religion. - Sir Francis Bacon

There's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer. - Matt Groening

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. - Napoléon Bonaparte

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. - Robert Jackson

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. - Madeleine L'Engle

We live in a day of abounding vagueness and indistinctness on doctrinal subjects in religion. Now, if ever, it is the duty of all advocates of clear, well-defined, sharply-cut theology, to supply proof that their views are thoroughly borne out by Scripture. - J.C. Ryle

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . . - James D. Watson

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed - Bō Jinn

I follow many great religions. Body is my temple. Love is my religion. Peace is my religion. Happiness is my religion. - Debasish Mridha

The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion. - Errol Anthony Smythe.

Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics. - Bill Gaede

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. - Abdal Hakim Murad

Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion. - Leo Tolstoy

When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church. - Sylvia Plath

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. - John Adams

Religion serves all of us; men, women, gays, straights, blacks, whites, Americans and Indians. If it does not comply with our needs, wishes and happiness, then religion without a doubt is a plague that must be stopped. - M.F. Moonzajer

Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation. - Thiruman Archunan

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to. - Camilo Gomes Jr.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. - Mahatma Gandhi

Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions. - Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion. - Dada Bhagwan

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other. - Jonathan Swift

Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever ‘degree’ one is sitting at, that ‘degree’ of religion he requires. - Dada Bhagwan

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun. - Thomas Paine

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with essence; till we shine,Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. BeholdThe clear religion of heaven! - John Keats

True Christianity is NOT a religion, to be a christian, you don't have to be a christian - Fabulous Godwin

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the resurrection. - F.H. Bradley

We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality. - M.F. Moonzajer

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine - Fakeer Ishavardas

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. - Robert A. Heinlein

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. - Sam Harris

...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it. - Stephen Fry

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure. - Jordan Beem

Religion + Good Works = Good WorksSolve for Religion. - Dan Barker

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. - Stefan Molyneux

Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be known. - Edwin P. Whipple

Where or how huge is the place we live or in what religion we believe doesn't matters when there is no happiness in our soul life is as a empty.bottle. - Jan Jansen

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. - Thomas Jefferson

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion, history, art, and romance would be useless. - Honore de Balzac

Science was born, when religion failed to find the God! - Vishwanath S J

Coincidentally, the words RELIGION and BULLSHIT both have eight letters. - Daya Kudari

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. - Matthew Arnold

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

What if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder. - Matt Groening

The West did not come to rule the world through its superiority of religion or ideas, but rather through its superior application of organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to starve. - Dorothee Sölle

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.

Terrorism has no religion, but secularism has one and only one. - Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal'

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.

We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded? - Unarine Ramaru

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. - George Santayana

Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can’t raise my voice you can’t raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists. - M.F. Moonzajer

When the power of LOVE is more important than the love of money, religion and power, and people realize that the most important things in this life are NOT things,the world will finally know peace. - Tanya Masse

Religion does not care about your purpose or determination; it just wants you to live like hell. - M.F. Moonzajer

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. - James A. Michener

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity. - Amit Ray

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print. - Dave Barry

From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition. - M.F. Moonzajer

Religion is for the intimacy of your heart, not for your tongue and hands to hurt others. - Gabbo De La Parra

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. - Thomas Jefferson

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. - Albert Einstein

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary, things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words. - Aldous Huxley