Religion Quotes

A candle cannot burn without fire as people cannot live without a religion.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

A Christian in the world is one thing, and the world in a Christian is quite another thing. A ship in the water is all right, but when the water gets in the ship, it is quite a different thing.