Quotes about Religion
One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.
— Georgia Harkness
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
— Hannah More
Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
— Deepak Chopra
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
— John Adams
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
— Dorothy Day
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
— GK Chesterton
Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.
— Greg Laurie
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
— Dorothy Day
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.
— Albert Einstein
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
— Cicero
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
— Fr. Richard Rohr