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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Toleration is the best religion.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.