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

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.