Quotes about religion
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George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #83
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Edward Abbey1927–1989Abbey’s Road (1979)
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Tell My Horse (1938), Ch. 15, p. 219
Jerome345–420Commentary on Isaiah, Prologue
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965“1901”, p. 67
Miyamoto Musashi1584–1645DokkodoPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Major Barbara (1905), Act IIIt is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
Jerome345–420Letters, Letter 125It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908), “Spiritualism”When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Mme. d’Épinal, Ferney (26 December 1760) from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124)Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. II, Preface (1898)Blasphemy is the word that the majority hisses into the ear of the few.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)