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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

A. W. Tozer

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

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All good moral philosophy is but handmaid to religion.

Francis Bacon

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Peace Pilgrim

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Jihad is part of my religion. What you have to understand is that anyone who fights on behalf of Allah, when he dies, the first drop of blood that comes out, all of his sins will be forgiven.

Abu Bakr

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How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

Arthur Hertzberg

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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign,does not declare,'That is mine!'.

Abraham Kuyper

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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Dalai Lama

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The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Dave Barry

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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Immanuel Kant

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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Immanuel Kant

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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A prophet is not a man who tells the future, he is a man who tells the truth.

Harold Kushner

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There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Havelock Ellis

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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Havelock Ellis

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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Alfred A. Montapert

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This one victorious group decided which books would be included in the New Testament and which groups would be excluded.

Bart Ehrman

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Why do blacks identify with the Christian religion of their oppressors?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Bill Gates

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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

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Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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On the Catholic priesthood:
I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man who spends all his time with one hand on the Bible and his other hand thrust down the pants of an adolescent child. I don't want to hear it.

Anthony Beal

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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

Irving Kristol

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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have the chance of becoming a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favourite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls, but my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up? Nobody .

J. D. Salinger

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The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Arundhati Roy

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Arthur Schnitzler

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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Arnold Toynbee

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