Creeds Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If religion addresses a genuine sphere of understanding and human necessity, then it should be susceptible to progress; its doctrines should become more useful,…

— Sam Harris

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Religion gets in the way of morality.

— Kim Campbell

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it…

— John Henry Newman

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

— Glen Cook

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“The vast stores of knowledge that represent the evolving wisdom borne from the scientific mind is proof positive that religion is no longer relevant…

— Al Stefanelli

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths…

— Adolf Hitler

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol