Changed Quote by George Eliot

“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

— George Eliot

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask…

— Denis Diderot

Fear causes us to refuse to embrace change because we care way more about being comfortable than being conformed into the image of Christ.

— Anonymous

“If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism,…

— Richard Rohr

Religion is a byproduct of fear,

— Arthur C. Clarke

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Fear is a belief - beliefs can be changed.

— Abraham Low

Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful…

— George Amos Dorsey

Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago.…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick