Quotes for Religion

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Joyce Meyer

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Desmond Tutu

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Albert Camus

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

Imelda Staunton

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Thomas Paine

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Thomas Carlyle

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Douglas Adams

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Carl Sandburg

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Desmond Tutu

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

Jakob Bohme

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte