Quotes about Religion, page 4

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about religion

Men despise religion, they hate it and fear it is true.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about religion

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Quote by Walter Pater about religion

And all of those things: my religion, my politics, my family, my friends, the books I read, everywhere I travel that influences everything I do.

Quote by Mandy Patinkin about religion

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

Quote by Papa John Paul II about religion

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Quote by William Penn about religion

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about religion

A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about religion

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

Quote by Bertrand Russell about religion

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about religion

In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche about religion

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about religion

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about religion

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about religion

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about religion

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

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about religion

True religion must fight against Evil in man and be aside him, being the only way to avoid existing Evil of the human self in another type of Evil that will be closer to Good or could even surpass it in Goodness. It will consequently determine...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about religion

Know that holiness too is a part of love and you are a saint of my destiny, a religion of my life, a belief of the forgotten being inside me, the stranger that I am, headed for nowhere, knowing that where it is I will find my fulfilment through...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about religion

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about religion

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about religion