Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Religion
Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration.
-Sri Aurobindo
Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.
-Christopher Paolini
"Brisingr"
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
-Dwight Lyman Moody
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
-Garrison Keillor
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
-Oscar Wilde
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
-Lenny Bruce
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
-George Bernard Shaw
