He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. Bush

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles Spurgeon

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Epictetus

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold Niebuhr

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
Bill Maher

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
Bill Maher

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson