Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.
‐‐ Michel Onfray
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
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
‐‐ Harriet Martineau
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
‐‐ Eugene H. Peterson
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Religion is all bunk.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
‐‐ Neal Boortz
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud
Religion is an irrational construct.
‐‐ Michel Onfray
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
‐‐ Teju Cole
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
‐‐ Bill Maher
Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
‐‐ George Gurdjieff
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
‐‐ Edmund Burke
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo
Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt
Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler
Religion is induced insanity.
‐‐ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
‐‐ Josh Gad
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
‐‐ Kary Mullis
Religion is just mind control.
‐‐ George Carlin
Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom
Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
‐‐ Michel Onfray
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
‐‐ Beatrice Webb
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
‐‐ Victoria Jackson
Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.
‐‐ Robert Webb
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
‐‐ Austin Farrer
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
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.
‐‐ Reza Aslan
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
‐‐ James Martineau
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
‐‐ Lemuel K. Washburn
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
‐‐ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
‐‐ Lyman Abbott
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
‐‐ Alan Watts
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
‐‐ Ernest Renan
Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.
‐‐ Henry IV
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel