Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

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

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

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

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We're all just part of Team Human.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.

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