Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. – John Comenius
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. – Randall Terry
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. – Jeff Miller
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. – Charles Eastman
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal. – Al Goldstein
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. – Huston Smith
Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self. – Huston Smith
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. – Huston Smith
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. – Polly Toynbee
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least. – ASAP Rocky
I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people. – Peter Jennings
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? – Charles de Secondat
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. – Charles de Secondat
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. – Walter Pater
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? – Andrew Sullivan
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – Mary Douglas
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. – Mary Douglas
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. – Mary Douglas
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. – Thomas More
