Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

When we blindly adopt a religion a political system a literary dogma we become automatons. We cease to grow.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Gentleness self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors interpreting them as facts then you are in trouble.