Acceptance Quote by William James

…religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.

— J. M. E. McTaggart

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

— F. H. Bradley

The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful…

— Sigmund Freud

People having religions is an insult to the universe.

— Celia Green

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

— Walt Whitman

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

— George MacDonald

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and…

— James Anthony Froude

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

— Allen W. Wood

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far…

— Albert Einstein

Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about.

— Sean Hayes

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

— Rajneesh

A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin