Religion Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old religion quotes, religion sayings, and religion proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. The Bible
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Edward Gibbon
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes, and wishes he was certain. Mark Twain
All religions have been made by men. Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is a cage made from other men's thoughts. Duane Alan Hahn
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it. John Adams
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. Eric Hoffer
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. Mahatma Gandhi
Men will wrangle for religion, wite for it, fight for it, anything but live for it. unknown
True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind. Sri Chinmoy
No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace. Sri Chinmoy
Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities. Swami Vivekananda
If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else. Rabindranath Tagore
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein
Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time. A. Eustace Haydon
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. Karen Armstrong
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. Karen Armstrong
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life -- life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance. A. Powell Davies
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. A. Powell Davies
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created. G. K. Chesterton
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. Austin Farrer
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
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. Dalai Lama
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu
My life was changed in one breath from God. Donna Summer
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. Douglas William Jerrold
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. E. Stanley Jones
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Edmund Burke