Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King Jr
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful
Swami Vivekananda
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Paul Tillich
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds
Susan Sontag
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg
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 his lifetime
Albert Einstein
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud
Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man
Swami Vivekananda
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing
Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Abraham J. Heschel
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine
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
Ralph Waldo Emerson