“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.”
John Keats
“Think how great a proportion of mankind, consists of weak and ignorant men and women, and of inexperienced youth of both sexes, who have need of the motives of religion to restrain them from vice, to support their virtue, and retain them in the pract”
Benjamin Franklin
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
Albert Einstein
“I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.”
“Music is my religion.”
Jimi Hendrix
“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force”
Mark Twain
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
Blaise Pascal
