Quotes about Religious

"When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim."
-Mark Twain

"When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom."
-Kirk Franklin

"Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing."
-Therese Of Lisieux

"I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
-Mark Twain

"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 problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s."
-Steve Allen

"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it."
-John Dewey

"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs."
-Samuel Butler

"I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
-Thomas A. Edison

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-John Adams

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
-John Adams

"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution."
-John Adams

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
-The Dalai Lama

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."
-Blaise Pascal

"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."
-Sigmund Freud

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
-Eric Hoffer

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
-Rita Rudner

"Many of the deepest and most engaging questions that we grapple with about the nature of the universe have their origins in our purely religious quest for meaning."
-John D. Barrow

"A moment of silence is not inherently religious."
-Sandra Day O'conner

"It gives the impression people must follow these opinions, which means clerical rule. The Shi'ite religious authority is interfering in political affairs."
-Saleh Al mutlak

"If anyone felt offended in his religious feelings, I freely ask him in a Christian manner for forgiveness."
-Cesare Cavalleri

"There was no religious component to the violence. All the violence was influenced by small groups of boys who were not moved by the blasphemy issue."
-Kamila Hyat

"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
-Alan Watts

"This was part of my minor, which is religious studies."
-Steve Buoni

"It [the Enlightenment] is clearly the foundation of the modern world. Almost everything we are arguing about at the moment - whether it's the religious hatred law and free speech, immigration, the movement of peoples, goods and services and what that does to national identity, or the proper limits of the state - go back to the positions first set out in the Enlightenment."
-Andrew Marr

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
-Dave Barry

"With all of these pop culture icons, it's a way for people to enter into a religious discussion in a non traditional or less threatening way."
-David Dobson