992 private quotes tagged religion

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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”— Woodrow Wilson
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“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
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“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”— Edmund Burke
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“Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I'm religiously opposed to religion.”— Victor Hugo
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“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.”— Voltaire
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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”— Edmund Burke
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“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.”— Alan Watts
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“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”— Thomas Paine
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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”— Søren Kierkegaard
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“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“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
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“If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.”— Charles Spurgeon
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“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
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“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”— Sigmund Freud
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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”— Dalai Lama
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“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.”— Blaise Pascal
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“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”— Mark Twain
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“Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”— Thomas Jefferson