Religion Quotes

"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."
-Hillary Clinton

"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God."
-Christina Aguilera

"Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache."
-Hungarian Proverb

"That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover• our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion• or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw• themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved."
-Dr. Joseph Smith

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
-David Hume

"It is easy to become a monk in one's old age."
-Ethiopian Proverb

"Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people."
-Ernest Renan

"No matter how much I probe and prodI cannot quite believe in God,But, oh, I hope to God that HeUnswervingly believes in me."
-E. Y. Harburg

"He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers."
-Zoroaster

"Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated."
-Voltaire

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

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion."
-Abraham Lincoln

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

"So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: 'Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.' Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code."
-Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

"Christianity is called the religion of pity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

"Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief."
-Oscar Wilde

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
-George Washington

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

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."
-Benjamin Disraeli