J'aime l'homme de¤  livre¤   par sa religion et vivifie¤   par les dieux que je fonde en lui. I admire the person freed from his religion and inspired by the gods inside of himself.

-Saint-Exupe¤  ry, Antoine de
Citadelle (published1948).

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Undershaft to Barbara Undershaft. Major Barbara, act 2.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Barbara Undershaft. Major Barbara, act 2.

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

-Smiles, Samuel
  Self-Help, ch.10.

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

-Spark, Dame Muriel Sarah ne¤  e  Camberg
  The Comforters, ch.1.

Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,öalways suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his creed.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Trim.Tristram Shandy, bk.2, ch.17.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

-Swift,Jonathan
Thoughts onVarious Subjects.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved inanynationwhere Christianity wasthereligion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Thoughts on Religion.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine, now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

-Szasz,Thomas Stephen
  The Second Sin.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

-Taylor,Jeremy
  TheWorthy Communicant.

The basic command of religion is not 'do this!'or 'do not do that!' but simply 'look!'

-Toynbee, (Theodore) Philip
  Journal entry,15 Feb. Collected in Part of aJourney (1981).

It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Argosy,'Father Giles of Ballymoy', May.

He would often say, Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it.

-Walton, Izaak
  Of George Herbert. Life of George Herbert.

Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsöfun, fun, fun!öand the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

-Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw
  The Heart of the Country,'LoveYour Enemy'.

   Religion issomething which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
  Science and the ModernWorld.

  Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
  Religion in the Making.

Religion isthetragedy of mankind† But I do know, from the inside as well as from personal observation, that religion appeals to something deep and irrational and strong within us, and that is what makes it so dangerous.

-Wilson, A(ndrew) N(orman)
Against Religion, no.19.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

-Wolfe,Tom (Thomas Kennerley)
  In OurTime, ch.2.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

-Wriston,Walter Bigelow
  In BusinessWeek, 20 Jan.