Religion, poetry, is not dead; it will never die. Its dwelling and birthplace is in the soul of man, and it is eternal as the being of man. In any point of space, in any section of time, let there be a living man; and there is an infinitude above him and beneath him, and an eternity encompasses him on this hand and on that; and tones of sphere-music and tidings from loftier worlds will flit round him, if he can but listen, and visit him with holy influences, even in the thickest press of trivialities or the din of busiest life. Carlyle.
Religion presents few difficulties to the humble, many to the proud, innumerable ones to the vain. Hare.
Religion primarily means obedience; bending to something or some one. To be bound, or in bonds, as apprentice; to be bound, or in bonds, by military oath; to be bound, or in bonds, as a servant of man; to be bound, or in bonds, under the yoke of God. Ruskin.
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science 30 only applies the meaning to the course of circumstances. Tolstoi.
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. Disraeli.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins.
Religion would frame a just man; Christ would make a whole man. Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving. Ward Beecher.
Religionen sind Kinder der Unwissenheit, die ihre Mutter nicht lange überleben—Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long outlive their mother. Schopenhauer.
Religions are not proved, are not established, 35 are not overthrown, by logic. They are, of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and inexplicable; they are of instinct, and not of reason. Lamartine.
Religious contention is the devil's harvest. La Fontaine.