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. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection.' (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

To all things clergic I am allergic. (Quote by - Alexander Woollcott)

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

Religions are the cradles of despotism. (Quote by - Marquis de Sade)

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs. (Quote by - Paramahansa Yogananda)

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)

On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives. (Quote by - Keith Green)

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. (Quote by - Jesus Christ)

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

Religion is love; in no case is it logic. (Quote by - Beatrice Potter Webb)

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. (Quote by - Harry Emerson)

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. (Quote by - T S Eliot)

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (Quote by - John Morley)

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. Napolean Bonaparte)

To be of no Church is dangerous. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)