Religion Quotes

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.

Too many temples where we could worship the beast.

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

Religion is pointing toward the moon

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.