Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

1. He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Anonymous

3. God has no Religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

4. God sometimes takes us into troubled waters not to drown us but to cleanse us.
Anonymous

5. I AM AN ATHEIST I’m not an atheist because it’s cool I’m not an atheist because of religious extremism or oppression in some depraved corners of the world I’m not an atheist because I don’t think evil can exist in a world with a god I’m not an atheist because I think science can disprove god I’m an atheist because of one simple fact THE BURDEN OF PROOF LIES ON RELIGION If you propose the existence of something you must follow the scientific method in your defense of its existence Otherwise I have no reason to listen to you I am an atheist.
Anonymous

6. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca

7. One religion is as true as another.
Robert Burton

8. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein

9. Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Albert Schweitzer

10. If they ask me why I do not have faith in religion, I will reply that I have lost my faith because of that religion.
Friedrich Schiller

11. The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma Gandhi

12. To you your religion and to me my religion.
Anonymous

13. My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama

14. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

15. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

16. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
Anonymous

17. Religion Should Be, An Option Not An Obligation.
Anonymous

18. You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.
Anonymous

19. Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Robert Green Ingersoll

20. Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
Anonymous

21. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Seneca

22. Religion is like a Penis. it’s fine to have one. it’s fine to be proud of it. but please don’t whip around in public & start waving it around. And please don’t try to shove it down my children’s throats.
Anonymous

23. There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

24. Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
Julian Casablancas

25. The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.
Dalai Lama

26. The best religion is the most tolerant.
Delphine de Girardin

27. Religion is easy, and no one overburdens himself in his religion but he will be unable to continue in that way. So do not be extremists, but try to be near perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded. Gain strength by worshipping in the mornings and afternoons and during the last hours of the night.
Muhammad

28. Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln

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

30. Real religion is no religion at all.
Lauryn Hill

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31. One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein

32. If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion
Sri Chinmoy

33. In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
Mesut Barazany

34. The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger, about my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride.. my jealousy ? These are the things we must check in our daily life.
Dalai Lama

35. Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organised religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.
Gwyneth Paltrow

36. The constitution provides freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Lamar S. Smith

37. The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine

38. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

39. A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs. Grenville kleiser

40. Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
Ziggy Marley

41. We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

42. If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
Anonymous

43. I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
Andrea Riseborough

44. Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

45. Islam is a dangerous religion.
Michel Houellebecq

46. To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther

47. Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
Mark Twain

48. A Tree Remains A Scar Forever In History To Remind Of An Undying Love Story Of A Savior Who Bled For Me.
Anonymous

49. I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another’s creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, not from our words, that our religion must be judged
Thomas Jefferson

50. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

51. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

52. All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

53. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins

54. I Wish There Was Religion That Would Not Let People Either Hate Or Hurt Each Other.
Anonymous

55. Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
George Washington

56. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

57. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

58. We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H.L. Mencken

59. God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Anonymous

60. Science Flies You To The Moon Religion Into Skycrapers.
Anonymous