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~ Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere ~

James Martineau

~ Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. ~

Frederick Buechner

~ Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science ~

Henri Bergson

~ All religions die of one disease - that of being found out ~

John Morley

~ 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. ~

Howard Stern

~ Religions change, but beer and wine remain ~

Harvey Allen

~ Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis ~

Sigmund Freud

~ A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ~

D.H. Lawrence

~ Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings ~

Harry Emerson

~ No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state ~

Felix Adler

~ Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. ~

Jorge Luis Borges

~ Religion is a pill best swallowed without chewing. ~

Unknown

~ Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ~

C.C. Colton

~ Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. ~

Mark Twain

~ A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. ~

Havelock Ellis

~ Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. ~

Austin O\'Malley

~ All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. ~

Frederick the Great

~ All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~

Cathy Ladman

~ No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. ~

William Ernest Hocking

~ Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted ~

Andre Malraux

~ If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition ~

Paul Keller

~ The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us. ~

Eugene Kennedy

~ I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ~

Felix Adler

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