Quotations
Religion
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous... In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
- Hannah Harrington
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
- Charles H. Spurgeon
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
- Bill Maher
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
- Swami Vivekananda
Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.
- Steve Maraboli
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
- Voltaire
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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