Quotes about religion: Authors with names A to P

Anon:

• "The worst thing you can do to a dogma is give it an empire."
  
  
• "There is nothing wrong with believing in a God. There is everything wrong in believing in a religion."
  
  
• "Science has taken us to the moon; religion has flown us into buildings."
  
  
• From the Hindu holy book, Rig-Veda: "There is only one truth, only men describe it in different ways."
  
  

Dave Barry, columnist, 1947 -  

• "People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
  
  
• 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.”
  
  

Albert Einstein:

• "...science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
  
  
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself (or herself) in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds."
  
  

Mahatma Ghandi:

• "If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian."
  
  
• "The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions."
  
  
• "I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them. Whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become Hindu.  But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.
  

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States:

• In A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1777: "God who gave us life gave us liberty.  Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are a gift  of God.  Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is  just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."
  
  
• From his book "Notes on Virginia" 1784: "Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites."
  
  
• In a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1800-SEP-23: "I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
  
  
• In a letter to S. Kercheval, 1810: "But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State."
  
  
• In a letter to Baron von Humboldt, 1813: "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."
  
  
• In a letter to H. Spafford, 1814: "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own."
  
  
• In a letter to Thomas Whittemore, 1822-JUN-05: "Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another."
  
  
• In a letter to John Adams, 1823-APR-11: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
  
  

His Holiness the Dalai Lama:

• "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."
  
  
• "All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect."
  
  

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