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Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

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

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

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.

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.

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

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with 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.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Religion is just mind control.