Famous Quotes: Religion

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Use this quote  

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Use this quote  

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Use this quote  

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Use this quote  

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Use this quote  

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Use this quote  

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Use this quote  

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Use this quote  

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Use this quote  

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

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Use this quote  

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
Use this quote  

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
Use this quote  

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Use this quote  

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
Use this quote  

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
Use this quote  

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Use this quote  

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Use this quote  

It was part of your religion to hate the British.
Use this quote  

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
Use this quote