801. Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison
802. This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. — Gary North
803. Religion is just mind control. — George Carlin
804. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. — Voltaire
805. We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things. — Henry Ward Beecher
806. Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art. — Wallace Stevens
807. The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. — Robert Bork
808. I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is. — Albert Camus
809. Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
810. The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion. — Harvey Milk
811. When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. — Kathie Lee Gifford
812. In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. — Alexander Hamilton
813. The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. — Billy Graham
814. When you’re in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me. — Henrique Capriles Radonski
815. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. — Aristotle
816. But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he’s brilliant at. He can’t still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. — John Podhoretz
817. Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. — Frederick Buechner
818. There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season. — Ernest Istook
819. Plato’s philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
820. The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires – and gives rise to – deep feelings of faith. — Jeffrey Kluger
821. In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. — Chinua Achebe
822. 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. — Ja Rule
823. We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. — Theodore C. Sorensen
824. Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it. — Quentin Tarantino
825. Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. — Johannes Tauler
826. I think there’s a difference between God and religion. — Sinead O’Connor
827. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. — Dalai Lama
828. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. — Jonathan Sacks
829. So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. — Lucretius
830. Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert
831. One’s religion is one’s own possession and he has a right to it. — Paul Harris
832. The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. — Minna Antrim
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833. I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: ‘Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. — Neale Donald Walsch
834. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. — Jane Smiley
835. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. — William Barclay
836. The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. — Thomas Paine
837. The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. — Lytton Strachey
838. Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. — Thomas Paine
839. A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. — Joseph Ratzinger
840. Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life. — Phil Ochs
841. In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
842. All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. — Richard Le Gallienne
843. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. — Dalai Lama
844. God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. — Swami Vivekananda
845. It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. — Bertrand Russell
846. Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
847. I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion. — Albert Einstein
848. Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched. — Guy de Maupassant
849. Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. — Gregory Bateson
850. In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue. — Paul Davies
851. God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. — Desmond Tutu
852. Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. — Erykah Badu
853. Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. — Lucretius
854. Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people. — John Desmond Bernal
855. I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It’s just a weakness that we human beings have for control – we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. — Dave Davies
856. There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? — Eddie Izzard
857. Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism. — Sydney Schanberg
858. Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
859. Communism was meant to be an alternative religion. — David Miliband
860. Islam is a peaceful religion. — Youssou N’Dour
861. My life was changed in one breath from God. — Donna Summer
862. What I miss today more than anything else – I don’t go to church as much anymore – but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. — Ernest Gaines
863. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. — Mahatma Gandhi
864. I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God. — Andrea Riseborough
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865. If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education. — William Jennings Bryan
866. It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. — Mary Douglas
867. After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. — John D. Rockefeller
868. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. — George Bernard Shaw
869. Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. — Lafcadio Hearn
870. The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. — Lionel Blue
871. I’m interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I’m not so interested in the comforting kind of religion. — Jonathan Safran Foer
872. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. — Albert Einstein
873. I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion. — Barbara Walters
874. As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. — George Orwell
875. Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. — Vera Farmiga
876. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
877. I’m not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn’t write them today because of my religion. — Louise Mensch
878. Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
879. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. — T. S. Eliot
880. Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. — Felix Adler
881. Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. — Neale Donald Walsch
882. The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. — E. O. Wilson
883. Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. — George Will
884. The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. — John Shelby Spong
885. It’s a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it’s man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they’re two different things. — Vera Farmiga
886. My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. — David Herbert Lawrence
887. One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s. — Mahatma Gandhi
888. Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. — Denis Diderot
889. The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. — Pope Shenouda III
890. It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? — Dwight L. Moody
891. There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
892. I like to say magic is the world’s second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. — Criss Angel
893. There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. — Reinhold Niebuhr
894. Wars have always started over religion. — Glenn Danzig
895. Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. — Francis Bacon
896. Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. — Scott Adams
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897. When I’m not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I’ve been writing quite constantly lately so I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction – philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. — Irvine Welsh
898. Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion. — Dalai Lama
899. Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. — Ralph W. Sockman
900. I’m not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is. — Jane Seymour
901. In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. — Hillary Clinton
902. I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. — Rick Warren
903. It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. — Albert Einstein
904. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
905. A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. — Theodore Roosevelt
906. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. — William Blake
907. I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. — Dwight L. Moody
908. In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that’s kind of natural for anyone who’s just embraced Islam – or any religion – as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I’d been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. — Cat Stevens
909. Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. — Andrew Greeley
910. More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. — Harvey Milk
911. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. — William Robertson Smith
912. 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. — Hu Shih
913. The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold
914. Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment. — Madonna Ciccone
915. Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
916. The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams
917. I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don’t agree with organized religion in that respect. — Hunter Parrish
918. I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — T. S. Eliot
919. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. — James A. Michener
920. I grew up with the religion of ‘Star Wars,’ frankly. That’s when I realized there is something bigger out there… and it’s called The Force. — Trey Parker
921. Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. — Gertrude Stein
922. The Son of God became man so that we might become God. — Athanasius
923. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. — Jeff Miller
924. Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect. — Abbas Kiarostami
925. The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. — William Ames
926. My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind. — Steven Seagal
927. There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. — Charles Caleb Colton
928. So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you. — Jesus Christ
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929. Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. — Joseph Campbell
930. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life. — Moses
931. My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god. — Ray Bradbury
932. Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? — Jonathan Sacks
933. I don’t believe there’s any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force. — Ian Mcewan
934. Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. — Azar Nafisi
935. To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. — William Ralph Inge
936. The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. — Voltaire
937. You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway. — Deepak Chopra
938. People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it. — Zachary Levi
939. Don’t try to tear down other people’s religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it’s glories. — Brigham Young
940. I’m a believer. I don’t go to church. I don’t belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn’t write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. — Nick Cave
941. I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. — B. R. Ambedkar
942. It doesn’t make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference. — Norma McCorvey
943. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
944. I think that we are at a point in our country where we’re trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. — Nikki Haley
945. I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. — Ram Dass
946. I’m not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I’m happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree. — Katy Perry
947. Religion is the opium of the masses. — Karl Marx
948. Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. — Benjamin Carson
949. Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. — Christopher Dawson
950. Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn’t necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. — Karen Armstrong
951. The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn’t pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. — Ken Kesey
952. Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. — Sri Aurobindo
953. I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. — E. O. Wilson
954. God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. — Robert South
955. Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. — George Santayana
956. My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another. — Art Linkletter
957. Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun. — Ziggy Marley
958. I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER. — Kerry King
959. The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don’t mix. This is the stock response of the left. — Christopher Lasch
960. No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. — Felix Adler
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961. Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. — George Byron
962. I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don’t even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. — Alice Cooper
963. It’s not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It’s that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. — Godfrey Reggio
964. I’m very interested in religion as something to study, but I’m not a religious person in the slightest. — Daniel Radcliffe
965. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business. — Jesse Ventura
966. Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. — Wendell Phillips
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