Religion Quotes

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Austin O'Malley

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Seneca

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

Martin H. Fischer

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

All men have need of the gods.

Homer Simpson

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.

Theodore Dreiser

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Mignon McLaughlin

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for.

George Savile

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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.

Dalai Lama

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.

Frederick the Great

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?

Martin Buber

I speak not of men's creeds - they rest between
Man and his Maker.

George Gordon