Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.To attack the first isnottoassail the last.To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Jane Eyre (2nd edn), preface.

For my religion, though there be several circumstances that might persuade the world I have none at allöas the general scandal of my profession, the natural course of my studies, the indifferency of my behaviour and discourse in matters of religion, neither violently defending one, nor with that common ardour and contention opposing anotheröyet in despite hereof I dare without usurpation assume the honourable style of a Christian.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section1.

In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks,'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religionfrom Rome or Geneva, butthe dictates of my own reason.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 5.

Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 6.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 25.

  All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

One religion is as true as another.

-Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior
Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.3, section 4, member 2, subsection1.

And still be doing, never done: As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.1, canto1, l.202^4.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

-Carlyle,Thomas
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Divinity' (published1897).

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

-Cather,Willa Sibert
  In Commonweal,17  Apr.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to  Arthur Charles Stanhope,12 Oct.

Of no ageönor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  Of Shakespeare. Table Talk (published1835), entry for 15 Mar.

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for itöanything but live for it.

-Colton, Charles Caleb
  Lacon, vol.1, no.25.

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'Boadicea: an Ode'.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^1 Great Expectations, ch.4.

'Sensiblemen are all thesamereligion.' 'And pray what is that?' inquired the prince.'Sensible men never tell.'

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Waldershire. Endymion, ch.81.

Because a man has a black face and a different religion fromours, there isno reasonwhy heshould betreatedas a brute.

-Edward VII
  Letter from India to Lord Granville, 30 Nov.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

-Einstein, Albert
Science, Philosophy and Religion:  A Symposium, ch.13.