“One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football …
“I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures …
“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.” – Dennis Prager
“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves – our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we …
“The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them” – Thomas Jefferson
“The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful” – Swami Vivekananda
“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.” – Kahlil Gibran
“I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.” …
“I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them” …
“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle” – George Washington
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness … the important thing is they should be part of …
“For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist, it’s absolutely an individual right, but the …
“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true …
“All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution” – Thomas …
“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely …
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one …
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a …
“My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony …
“To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when …
“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious – unless he purposely shut the eyes of …
“People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.” – Dave Barry
“It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can …
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – This is a somewhat new kind of religion” – Albert Einstein
“Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.” – …
“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.” …
“The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities….The so-called clergy stupefy the masses….They befog the people and keep …
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” – Blaise Pascal
“A man’s moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during …
“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a …
“The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms” – Henri Frederic Amiel
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction” – Blaise Pascal