Quotes about religion
498 quotes from 232 people
One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Twelve-Pound Look (1910)Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Starting from Paumanok. 7I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.
Tertullian150–220Apologeticus, 50, s. 13People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William Faulkner1897–1962As I Lay Dying (1930), AddieBlasphemy is a padlock which hypocrisy tries to put on the lips of all honest men.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899Blasphemy lecture delivered at Brooklyn, N.Y., prior to Ingersoll’s departure for Europe, February 22d, 1885 (reproduced at pg. 105).Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.
W. H. Auden1907–1973A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (1970), “Hell”Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; XXVHeathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
Sam Harrisborn 1967The End of Faith (2004)The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher1813–1887Life Thoughts (1858), p. 22It is easy to see how superstition, with its false glosses, mocks God, while it tries to please him.
John Calvin1509–1564Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Book 1, Chapter 4, p. 54