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Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

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.

Religion implies revelation.

Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where the very word 'religion' reminds one of dead churches and dead priests. It reminds one of serious looking people, long faces. It has lost the capacity to dance, to sing, to celebrate. And when a religion has lost the capacity to dance, to celebrate, to sing, to love, just to be, then it is no more religion - it is a corpse, it is theology. Theology is dead religion.

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

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.

Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Religion is a light in the fog.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.