Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke

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

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

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

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

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon

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's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Bertrand Russell

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