45 Quotes about religion by famous personalities


Religion is a cultural system of worship and faith. It is a belief held as holy, sacred, and absolute. Remember, you should respect each other's beliefs no matter what religion you're in. May these religion quotes about life give you insights to help you understand more about religion.

Quotes about religion by famous personalities
1. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” – Seneca

2. “Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

4. “Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.” – Franz Werfel

5. “When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln

6. “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

7. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein

8. “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” – Dalai Lama

9. “I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.” – B. R. Ambedkar

Quotes about religion by famous personalities
10. “The purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others.” – Dalai Lama

11. “God has no religion.” – Mahatma Gandhi

12. “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” – Karl Marx

13. “Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.” – Phil Ochs

14. “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” – Anais Nin

Quotes about religion by famous personalities
15. “There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.” – Malala Yousafzai

16. “Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?” – Arthur C. Clarke

17. “Religions are different roads converging to the same point.” – Mahatma Gandhi

18. “Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.” – Reza Azlan

19. “Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” – Pope John Paul II

Quotes about religion by famous personalities
20. “The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.” – Mahatma Gandhi

21. “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” – Steven Weinberg

22. “The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.” – Arthur C. Clarke

23. “Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.” – Talib Kweli

24. “Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotes about religion by famous personalities
25. “True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.” – Albert Einstein

26. “If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.” – Voltaire

27. “If religion is the answer, the question is how best to pacify the masses.” – Paul K. Chappell

28. “These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.” – Anthony de Mello

29. “The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.” – Billy Graham

30. “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

More Famous Quotes about Religion

31. “All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.” – Cathy Ladman

32. “The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. “Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.” – Radhanath Swami

34. “Toleration is the best religion.” – Victor Hugo

35. “Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.” – Jon Stewart

36. “It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.” – Thomas Jefferson

37. “God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.” – Desmond Tutu

38. “I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.” – Khalil Gibran

39. “Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.” – Robert A. Heinlein

40. “True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.” – Louis Nizer

41. “It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.” – Mattie Stepanek

42. “Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.” – Austin Farrer

43. “There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.” – George Bernard Shaw

44. “For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree.” – Mahatma Gandhi

45. “Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.” – Frederick the Great

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