Religion Quotes
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.
Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.
Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.
I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you.
As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.
I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.
I do not think witchcraft is a religion, and I do not think it is in any way appropriate for the US military to promote it.
The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.
The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.
What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.