Men despise religion; they hate it, and fear it is true.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it, if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.