Religion Quotes

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

in religion even when the reward is far the hope is so immediate.

Fabricating answers to unanswerable questions is the domain of religion. A deity model is not the default alternative to a scientific mystery.

Religion stills a thinking mind.

I don't believe a religion affords any protection if they are connected to any kind of terror.

I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

You may be a fantastic person, and you may have some wonderful religious views that might even turn out to be true, but the religion you'd be following would not be Christianity.

Nowadays, people have a habit of relativizing religion, reducing it to "your truth" versus "my truth" versus "their truth," and that's the end of it.

When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in the world.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

People who practise a religion have been found to be happier, healthier and less stressed than those who don't.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

The people in Arab countries are now speaking out and asking many questions about human rights, minorities, religion, democracy, "the other," and so on.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.