Compassion Quote by Mercedes Lackey

“Religion is like a knife; in the hands of a surgeon, it heals, but in the hands of a murderer, it kills.”

— Luke Gracias

“Religion must use law to empower itself and control the people who they need in order to survive.”

— William P. Young

“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.”

— Marcus J. Borg

“Religion adheres to the wise, while the feeble are bound to it.”

— VD

“...religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.”

— James P. Carse

“One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult…

— Karen Armstrong

“When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be…

— Matthew Henry

“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.”

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Religion adheres to the wise, while the feeble adhere to religion.”

— VD