Religion Quotes

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

I think the Indian model of respecting the uniqueness of each religion and, of every state is what makes the country great.

The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.

I used to hate religion, I loathed it in my angry days.

Remember that veganism is a compassionate lifestyle not a punitive religion. Enjoy it! And if the going gets rough, it's better to relax the rules occasionally than to give up the game entirely.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

Religion is the balm of the people.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.