Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
Abigail Van Buren

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Toni Morrison

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
John Updike

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
John Updike

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Abdul Kalam

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne

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.
David Hume

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

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Thomas Huxley

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
Louis Aragon

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Paul Tournier

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel Butler

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman