Anecdotes Quote by Gilbert Burnet

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things…

— Gore Vidal

“It was not something called "religion" distinguished from the rest of life, but rather all of life lived in a certain way.”

— Brad S. Gregory

“no one can say he understands a single thing about religions”

— john wilfred sharp

Men say they are of the same religion, for quietness' sake; but if the matter were well examined, you would scarce find three anywhere…

— John Selden

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

— Frederick Buechner

“Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow…

— Heather Graham

“...A man's religion and love life were nobody else's concern so long as neither of them gouged out some innocent bystander's eyes.”

— Douglas C. Jones

“We need to understand that a man can never lay down his religion and act as a religionless person.”

— Joseph C. Morecraft III

“Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific…

— Elena Ferrante

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion, -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

— Mark Twain