Religion Quotes

My mind is my own church.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.

Religion is all bunk.

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty...this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That�s my religion.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It�s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

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.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another?

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.