Top 100 Best Religion Quotes
#1. The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
Thomas Jefferson
#2. Love is the best religion;
it only cares and never kills anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#3. People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really proud of being an Atheist.
M.F. Moonzajer
#4. The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#5. The best religion is the religion that brings you closest to God.
Howard Storm
#7. The Perfect Matrimony is the union of two beings; one who loves more, and the other who loves better. The best religion available to the human race is Love.
Samael Aun Weor
#8. at best, religion generates comforting noises to mask the fact that someone is starving to death, or is dying of cholera, or has had a crusader stick a sword in his or her chest.
P.Z. Myers
#9. Don't mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
Brendan Behan
#14. The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#15. The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
Pearl S. Buck
#16. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
James Freeman Clarke
#17. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks
#18. His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
John Keats
#19. The religion of cheerfulness, as Father Brown reminds us, is a cruel religion, and maybe the best way not to go mad is not to mind too much if you do go mad.2
Brennan Manning
#20. Our best moral stories don't tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in one situation at one time. Readers, viewers, and listeners are supposed to extrapolate the moral meaning from the story. We're not supposed to have it handed to us.
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
#21. Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative.
Anthony Burgess
#22. I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
Dave Beard
#23. The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archaeology.
Cyril Bailey
#24. You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.
Annie Besant
#25. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. When everything goes wrong, it's better to remember
someone who is not going to question you or blame you for what
you have done. Not even offer some free advice.
That's the best thing about God.
Sheeja Jose
#27. What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.
Christian Wiman
#28. Albert Einstein said it best: Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.
Mark Batterson
#29. You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.
Harry Blamires
#30. As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget's call on hold. A peppy rendition of "City of God" blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget to start to sing along with the chorus. Catholic brainwashing at its best.
Gretchen McNeil
#31. Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.
Joanne Harris
#32. Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best.
Nancy Pearcey
#33. Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor ... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
R.S. Thomas
#35. It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
Mark Twain
#36. I couldn't believe that nine-hundred and ninety-nine religions were completely false and the remaining one true. In reality, Christianity is primarily the fulfilment of the Jewish religion, but also the fulfilment of what was vaguely hinted in all the religions at their best. What
C.S. Lewis
#37. Saying of the Prophet
Truth
Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.
Idries Shah
#38. 'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
Isaac Newton
#39. There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.
A.C. Grayling
#40. I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
Charles Dickens
#41. According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
Jen Pollock Michel
#42. Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight,
Kendrick Lamar
#43. It was her religion to make the best of everything.
Lyndall Gordon
#44. Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.
Baruch Spinoza
#45. This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President
George Washington
#46. At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone ... It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.
George Clooney
#47. Communities/individuals often compare the "best" in their own faith tradition with the "worst" in other's religion.
Irfan A Omar
#48. As I see it, religion is at its best when it leads us forward, when it guides us in our spiritual growth as individuals and in our cultural evolution as a species. Unfortunately,
Brian McLaren
#49. Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
Frederick Buechner
#50. I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#51. In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
Booker T. Washington
#52. On this earth there are many roads to heaven; and each traveller supposes his own to be the best. But they must all unite in one road at the last. It is only Omniscience that can decide. And it will then be found that no sect is excluded because of its faith ...
Eliza Leslie
#53. Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.
Philip Zaleski
#54. The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.
Jeffrey Kluger
#55. A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.
Toni Sorenson
#56. There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
Michael Moore
#58. In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
Walter Bagehot
#59. Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.
Marvin Williams
#60. Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.
Jimi Hendrix
#61. Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#62. Be a religion to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. I love thee! that's my catechism. He who loves is orthodox.
Victor Hugo
#63. I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).
Kurt Vonnegut
#64. I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.
Barack Obama
#65. [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#66. I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.
Sinead O'Connor
#67. Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#68. Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.
C. A. Bartol
#69. God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him as the best recordkeeper and judge.
Charles R. Swindoll
#70. Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.
Taslima Nasrin
#71. I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C.S. Lewis
#72. The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
Geerhardus Vos
#73. Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#74. There are many ways to scare people. Religion seems to be the best of these.
Art Hochberg
#75. [Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
Stephen Jay Gould
#76. Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.
James Madison
#77. It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity ... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.
George Santayana
#78. The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Martin Luther
#79. The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.
Ramakrishna
#80. Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one
except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative, practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.
Henry Adams
#81. My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
Frank Zappa
#82. What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.
Edwin Gaustad
#83. So from the age of five to about twenty, religion to me was a matter of 'you do this, and you don't do that, and you do your best to walk the straight line.
Joanna Gaines
#84. The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
Thomas Keating
#85. Mild speech is the best form of showing the Calmness of ones soul, Rough talk forms all types of unease for all man - you won't be able to talk to God Roughly though - so keep silent.
A Gentlemen
#86. Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.
Bertrand Tavernier
#87. I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.
Dalai Lama XIV
#88. I'm less interested in proselytizing or a bigger tent for its own sake than in issues of human flourishing. What are the best conditions in which people live and flourish? It's more the, How do we get along? What does it mean for living now?
Karen L. King
#90. Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.
Charles Colson
#91. Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.
Criss Jami
#92. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.
Swami Vivekananda
#93. The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!
Jean Webster
#94. I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.
Samuel Adams
#95. I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say everyone starts out bad and only gets good by believin' in Om, which is frankly damn nonsense.
Terry Pratchett
#96. I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#97. [A]s they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion ... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#98. The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.
George Washington
#99. 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.
R.D.Sharma
#100. The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.
Sonia Johnson
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