All Quotes

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