Religion Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

— George Bernard Shaw

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

— George Bernard Shaw

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

— George Bernard Shaw

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

— George Bernard Shaw

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

— George Bernard Shaw

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

— George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above…

— George Bernard Shaw

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church…

— George Bernard Shaw

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

— George Bernard Shaw

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name…

— George Bernard Shaw

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam

— George Bernard Shaw

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself…

— George Bernard Shaw

Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either…

— George Bernard Shaw

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

— George Bernard Shaw

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average…

— George Bernard Shaw

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken…

— George Bernard Shaw

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths…

— George Bernard Shaw

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized…

— George Bernard Shaw

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.…

— George Bernard Shaw

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life…

— George Bernard Shaw

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.…

— George Bernard Shaw

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which…

— George Bernard Shaw

“BROADBENT [stiffly]. Devil is rather a strong expression in that connexion, Mr Keegan. KEEGAN. Not from a man who knows that this…

— George Bernard Shaw

“...Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heaven, which is,…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

— George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

— George Bernard Shaw

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

— George Bernard Shaw

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

— George Bernard Shaw

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

— George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

— George Bernard Shaw

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the…

— George Bernard Shaw

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

— George Bernard Shaw