- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion Quotes
Belief looked at from every angle.
Some of these come from personal family history with church and faith, others take a harder look at how religion gets used or misused. For quotes on trust and conviction, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
- Citizenry
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile acts of hatred and persecution.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety. It reflects the Framers' belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
- Knife
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- Nov 07, 2020
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020