RELIGION

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1. They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.—Bible, Isaiah 40:31
   

2. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.—BURKE
   

3. One religion is as true as another.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

4. Petulant, capricious sects,
   The maggots of corrupted texts.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

5. With crosses, relics, crucifixes,
   Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—
   The tools of working our salvation
   By mere mechanic operation.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

6. As I said before, I am really a great admirer of tangible religion, and am breeding one of my daughters a Catholic that she may have her hands full. It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics and the Real Presence, confession, absolution, there is something sensible to grasp at.—BYRON
   

7. His religion, at best, is an anxious wish;—like that of Rabelais, "a great Perhaps."—CARLYLE, Burns
   

8. In Man, the positive content of religion is the instinctive sense—whether conscious or subconscious—of an inner unity and continuity with the world around. This is the stuff out of which religion is made.—EDWARD CARPENTER,
   Pagan and Christian Creeds
   

9. Religion must still be allowed to be a collateral security to Virtue.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

10. To the man who has the religion of peace, the supreme value is love. To the man who has the religion of war, the supreme value is strife.—G. LOWES DICKINSON, The Choice Before Us
    

11. By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.—SIR JAMES G. FRAZER, The Golden Bough
    

12. I would not make a fetish of religion and condone evil in its sacred
    name.—MAHATMA GANDHI
    

13. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the
    church and the State for ever separate.—ULYSSES S. GRANT
    

14. I have no reason to doubt that the Lord loves the Shakers, but I don't believe he admires them.—J. G. HOLLAND
    

15. It is the task of Rationalism to see that religion, this fundamental and important activity of man, shall neither be allowed to continue in false or inadequate forms, nor be stifled or starved, but made to help humanity in a vigorous growth that is based on truth and in constant contact with reality.—JULIAN HUXLEY, Essays of a Biologist
    

16. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.—ROBERT INGERSOLL
    

17. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Life of Milton
    

18. For me and my kind the religious is lodged in the human.—THOMAS MANN, I Believe
    

19. It can be of no importance to me of what religion my physician or my lawyer is; this consideration has nothing in common with the offices of friendship which they owe me.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
    

20. Pop used to say about the Presbyterians, it don't prevent them committing all the sins there are but it keeps them from getting any fun out of it.—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Kitty Foyle
    

21. After coming in contact with a religious man, I always feel that I must wash my hands.—NIETZSCHE, Ecce Homo
    

22. Religions, as they grow by natural laws out of man's life, are modified by whatever modifies his life.—WALTER PATER, The Renaissance
    

23. Religion was not meant to curtail the enjoyments of the rich, but to keep the poor in their places, and to prevent the lower ones from rising above their stratum in life.—HERBERT PAUL, Queen Anne
    

24. Religion is the best armour, but the worst cloak.—Proverb
    

25. It matters not what religion an ill man is of.—Proverb
    

26. A profitable religion never wanted proselytes.—Proverb
    

27. In order to be able to say that religious experience reveals reality, in order to be able to transform religious certitude into logical certainty, we are obliged to give an intellectual account of the experience. Hindu thought has no mistrust of reason. There can be no final breach between the two powers of the human mind, reason and intuition.—S. RADHAKRISHNAN
    

28. Religion beats me. I'm amazed at folk
    Drinking the gospels in and never scratching
    Their heads for questions.—SIEGFRIED SASSOON, The Old Huntsman
    

29. Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.—BERNARD SHAW, Getting Married
    

30. Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.—JOHN TYNDALL, Fragments of Science
    

31. I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.—WALT WHITMAN, Starting from Paumanok