Accepting Quote by Jonathan Edwards

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked...

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence…

— Edmund Burke

“But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes of a being that does not exist.”

— Alom Shaha

“not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a suffocation of…

— Tom Robbins

“True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which binds his…

— Leo Tolstoy

The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in…

— Frithjof Schuon

True religion is the realization of truth.

— Franz Hartmann

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

— H. L. Mencken

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is…

— Thomas Carlyle