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~ A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. ~
~ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ~
~ The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ~
~ Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand ~
~ In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity ~
~ Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ~
~ Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ~
~ Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution ~
~ Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ~
~ Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea ~
~ The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted ~
~ Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable ~
~ Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. ~
~ If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism ~
~ I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't ~
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