Religion Quotes

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

Show true religion, cause words don't relieve

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

I had a father who was strong and kind and loving beyond ... at the same time who was extremely puritanical, who had been raised in a religion with extensive morality.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.

Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

I think science and religion should be separate.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.