201. No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Abdul Kalam
202. Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. — Ambrose Bierce
203. I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way. — Dave Chappelle
204. I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person’s God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don’t believe in God. — Amber Tamblyn
205. Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
206. In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people… and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. — William Robertson Smith
207. People still kill in the name of religion. We haven’t evolved to the point where we’re one tribe called humans. — Rachel Weisz
209. And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point. — Michael Berryman

210. There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. — James Larkin
211. Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. — William Robertson Smith
212. The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. — Jonathan Lethem
213. It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. — Robert A. Heinlein
214. All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. — Beatrix Potter
215. A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. — David Herbert Lawrence
218. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
220. I’ve had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. — Chinua Achebe
221. The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I’m sure of that. — Tom T. Hall
222. There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men’s own righteousness, and. — Jonathan Edwards
224. I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. — Donald Cargill
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225. There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
226. The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
227. Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that. — Richard Dawkins
228. Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. — Mark Hopkins
229. Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. — Mahatma Gandhi
230. I know it’s very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. — Shahrukh Khan
233. I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I’m the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don’t believe. I am constantly between the two. — Anjelica Huston
235. Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. — Charles de Secondat
236. In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. — Noah Webster
237. He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
239. The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. — Aldous Huxley

240. Every fundamentalist movement I’ve studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. — Karen Armstrong
241. I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours. — Tom Tancredo
243. Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it’s not a religion. It’s a political system. It’s a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim. — Pat Robertson
244. I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. — Khalil Gibran
245. As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. — Christopher Dawson
246. Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? — Mary Douglas
247. I read Christopher McDougall’s book ‘Born to Run.’ If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race. — Jennifer Carpenter
248. Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. — Rupert Sheldrake
249. There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli
250. The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. — Richard Le Gallienne
252. Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. — Laurence Sterne
253. The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
254. I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we’re dead. They’re not going to give up their religion. — Chris Matthews
255. But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn’t a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected. — Javier Bardem
256. I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. — Laurence Housman
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257. We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. — Herbert Read
258. I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up. — Katherine Heigl
259. We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. — Serj Tankian
260. When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. — Desmond Tutu
264. The question of religion was a matter for each individual’s conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. — James Larkin
265. True religion… is giving and finding one’s happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. — William J. H. Boetcker
267. Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue
269. So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy. — Thomas Keneally

270. 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. — Walter Pater
271. Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. — Karen Armstrong
272. And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud’s view of man. — Chaim Potok
273. What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! — William Blake
274. I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. — Aaron Neville
275. To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. — Martin Luther
277. Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. — Lance Loud
278. Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. — Octavia Butler
279. I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe
280. The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. — Peter King
281. Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. — Taslima Nasrin
282. He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
284. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx
286. The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. — Charles Eastman
287. The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. — Dave Barry
288. Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. — Walter Savage Landor
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289. 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. — Elton John
290. The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. — John Updike
291. War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther
292. Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. — Karen Armstrong
295. I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents’ religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it. — Ken Follet
296. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. — Carl Sagan
297. Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That’s a unique claim in the literature of religion. — Josh McDowell
299. We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. — Dalai Lama

300. Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it’s people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it’s also a cause for war and bloodshed. — Josh Gad
303. My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism. — Marilyn Manson
304. It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. — Laurence Housman
305. Today’s interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. — Naguib Mahfouz
306. Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. — Shirin Ebadi
307. Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. — Thomas Szasz
310. Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners. — James Kent
311. Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. — Ezra Pound
313. If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. — Thomas Aquinas
315. I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
316. My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it’s a personal thing, and I don’t shove it down people’s throats. I don’t condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That’s their choice. But in my world, I’m just an entertainer. — Donny Osmond
318. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. — Thomas Carlyle
319. A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. — B. R. Ambedkar
320. The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced – the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it. — Dennis Prager
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321. I’ve found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. — Julian Clary
322. If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. — Meister Eckhart
324. Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation. — Hosea Ballou
325. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. — Ulysses S. Grant
326. When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it’s more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don’t practice or preach it, however. — Uma Thurman
327. It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. — David Herbert Lawrence
328. Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion. — John Burroughs
329. I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. — Julia Child

330. The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion. — Ernest Istook
331. To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. — Rowan Atkinson
333. There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. — Saint Ambrose
334. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect – freedom of thought and freedom of action. — Frank Murphy
335. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. — Alan Watts
336. There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. — Woodrow Wilson
337. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. — Stephen Harper
338. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. — Socrates
339. He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. — Maimonides
340. The earth is the Lord’s fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. — Lewis Mumford
342. Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. — Azar Nafisi
343. So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. — Christy Turlington
344. Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion. — Ernest Istook
346. I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting. — Patrick Wilson
347. It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different. — John Shelby Spong
348. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. — Karen Armstrong
349. I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that. — John Keats
350. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. — Frederick Douglass
351. Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
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354. I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn’t the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up. — Mandy Moore
355. Most men’s anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. — Edward F. Halifax
356. Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — Richard Dawkins
358. Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. — Daniel Morgan
359. No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

360. Religion is run by thought police. ‘Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don’t ask questions. Go die for your country.’ The spirituality says, ‘Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.’ — Tommy Chong
361. These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual. — Joan D. Vinge
362. I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money. — Angie Stone
365. What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. — Gertrude Stein
366. The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. — Avicenna
367. We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion. — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
368. I don’t feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. — Imelda Staunton
369. And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
370. The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. — Phillip E. Johnson
371. Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion. — Thurston Moore
372. Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. — Martin Scorsese
375. As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. — Annie Dillard
376. That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. — Sri Aurobindo
378. Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
379. Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. — Muhammad Iqbal
380. Hey, I’m a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. — Paul Ryan
381. The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. — Randall Terry
383. I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema. — Giovanni Ribisi
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386. In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. — Charles Caleb Colton
387. I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. — Mary Douglas
388. I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, ‘We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.’ — Cher
389. Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. — Epictetus

390. To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. — Eric Hoffer
391. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche
392. My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. — Mahatma Gandhi
393. In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody’s torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. — Lord Chesterfield
394. I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960’s. — Carol P. Christ
395. I fear it’s because religion is man’s attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else’s claim to have done the same. — Jerry B. Jenkins
396. I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual. — Sela Ward
397. It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. — Herbert Read
398. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
399. There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. — Sean O’Casey
400. There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. — Tony Campolo