Burning Quote by Martha Ostenso

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

— Georges Bizet

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion.”

— Dan Brown

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but…

— PZ Myers

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

— Criss Jami

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

— Vera Farmiga

Religion is a light in the fog.

— Edie Brickell

Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

— Eustace Haydon

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human…

— George Santayana

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive…

— Walter Scott