The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched with emotion.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Literature and Dogma, ch.1.

So we have the Philistine of genius in religionöLuther; the Philistine of genius in politicsöCromwell; the Philistine of genius in literatureöBunyan.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Mixed Essays,'Lord Falkland'.

More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Essays in Criticism Second Series,'The Study of Poetry'.

All good moral philosophy is but an handmaid to religion.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.22, section14.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth Man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. See Berkeley 79:7. 48

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.9 'Of  Atheism'.

The order of nobility is of great use, too, not only in what it creates, but in what it prevents. It prevents the rule of wealthöthe religion of gold. This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon† From this our aristocracy preserves us.

-Bagehot,Walter
  The English Constitution, ch.4,'The House of Lords'.

La passion est toute l'humanite¤  . Sans elle, la religion, l'histoire, le roman, l'art seraient inutiles. Passion is all of humanity.Without it, religion, history, the novel and art would be useless.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Come¤  die humaine, foreword.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

-Barrie, SirJ(ames) M(atthew)
The Twelve-Pound Look.

Quand me"  me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineöDieu est le seul e"  tre qui, pour re¤  gner, n'ait me"  me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Journaux intimes.'Fuse¤  es', no.1.

A brave world, Sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Roundheads, act1, sc.1.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Art, pt.2, ch.1.

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. Asfaraspossible Ikneeldownandtell these beadsevery day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Election campaign speech, Salford.

What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their dayöthe theatres have had their dayöthe temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great movements of human thought and of human civilisation. A newspaper can send more souls to Heaven, and save more from Hell, than all the churches or chapels in New Yorköbesides making money at the same time.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr
  In the NewYork Herald,19  Aug.

   If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James1:26.

   Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James1:27.

Mayonnaise, n.One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

'Theosophy' isthe essence of all religionand of absolute truth, a drop of which only underlies every creed.

-Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
  The Key to Theosophy.

Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.

-Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
  The Key to Theosophy.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityöand even this garment has looked very different at different timesöthen what is religionless Christianity?

-Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
  Letter to Eberhardt Bethge, 30  Apr. Collected in Widerstand und Ergebung (1951, translated1953).