Religion Quotes

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

All men have need of the gods.

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

"Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."

He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.