Controversial Quote by John Gresham Machen

“The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never…

— J. Gresham Machen

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe…

— Reza Aslan

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

— Edmund Burke

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

— Vladimir Nabokov

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a…

— E. W. Howe

“a religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.”

— Michael S. Horton

Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.

— Dan Wakefield

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

— Abigail McCarthy

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

— Henry David Thoreau

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never…

— Max Lerner

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric…

— Stephen L. Carter