3 December 2020 Brigham Young Don’t try to tear down other people’s religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it’s glories.
3 December 2020 Noah Webster No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga It’s a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it’s man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they’re two different things.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
3 December 2020 Randall Terry The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
3 December 2020 Abel Ferrara The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
3 December 2020 Lytton Strachey The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
3 December 2020 Christy Turlington So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
3 December 2020 Danny Masterson Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren’t Catholic anymore, like any religion.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Whichcote Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.
3 December 2020 Huston Smith First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.
3 December 2020 William J. H. Boetcker True religion… is giving and finding one’s happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
3 December 2020 Polly Toynbee There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
3 December 2020 Tom Tancredo I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
3 December 2020 James Madison Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
3 December 2020 Walter Savage Landor Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
