Religion Quotes

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.

Religion is just coded spirituality.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead flea scrolls: A Sirius Prophecy.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.

Religion gets in the way of morality.

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion I have, but are always interested.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.

The source of nature is spirit.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that "religions" are not "all the same."

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'

If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.

How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.