30+ Thought-Provoking and Famous Quotes about Religion

Famous Quotes about Religion – The topic of religion has sparked various types of discussions over the year. Various people have stated not just memorable lines about the topic but also thought-provoking quotes. Among these people are some famous figures in history and current times. Overall, everyone has something to say about religion and some of their lines have become famous over time. Some Famous Quotes about Religion to know about are as follows:

• “When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.”
  – Abraham Lincoln
  
• “The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
  – Thomas Paine
  
• “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
  – Martin Luther
  
• “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
  – Napoleon Bonaparte
  
• “Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.”
  – Albert Einstein
  
• “I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.”
  – Mahatma Gandhi
  
• “Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.”
  – Muhammad Ali
  
• “Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.”
  – Thomas Jefferson
  
• “Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
  – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  
• “Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
  – Benjamin Disraeli

Additional Famous Quotes about Religion

• “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  
• “In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.”
  – Mahatma Gandhi
  
• “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
  –  Edgar Allan Poe
  
• “If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?”
  –  Benjamin Franklin
  
• “Religion is the opium of the people.”
  – Karl Marx
  
• “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
  – Gautama Buddha
  
• “Religion is like a pair of shoes…..Find one that fits for you, but don’t make me wear your shoes.”
  – George Carlin
  
• “Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
  – Jon Stewart
  
• “Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”
  – Sojourner Truth
  
• “Any time scientists disagree, it’s because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I’m right, or you’re right, or we’re both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.”
  – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Thought-Provoking Lines about Religion

• “Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.”
  – Octavia E. Butler
  
• “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
  – Tenzin Gyatso
  
• “No religion can be built on force.”
  – George Sand
  
• “Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
  – Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
• “One religion is as true as another.”
  – Robert Burton
  
• “God has no religion.”
  – Henry Whitney Bellows
  
• “Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
  – Christopher Hitchens
  
• “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
  – Gilbert K. Chesterton
  
• “Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.”
  – William Inge
  
• “All religions are branches of one big tree.”
  – George Harrison
  
• “Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
  – Jon Stewart
  
• “All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.”
  – Mikhail Bakunin

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