3 December 2020 Bernice Johnson Reagon And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
3 December 2020 Howard Stern I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Scott Latourette Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
3 December 2020 Tom T. Hall The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I’m sure of that.
3 December 2020 Laurence Housman I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
3 December 2020 Robert Green Ingersoll Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
3 December 2020 Joyce Cary Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul – politics does the same thing for the body.
3 December 2020 Charles Lamb I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
3 December 2020 Mary Douglas It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
3 December 2020 Christopher Marlowe I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
3 December 2020 Annie Besant No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
3 December 2020 David Hume The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
3 December 2020 Abigail Van Buren Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
3 December 2020 Frederick II Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas – it’s always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
3 December 2020 Andrea Riseborough I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
3 December 2020 Cher I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, ‘We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.’
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
