Religion Quotes

Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.

Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

The past is another planet.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.

I don't think the religion makes the woman; I think the woman is who she is within the religion.

Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.

Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.

All the religions have deviated from its roots, and the main thing was that you must have your Realization, you must have your Spirit. Once you become the Spirit then you understand the religion.

The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

The evolutionists worship atheism. I mean, that's their religion.

I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.

There is no Apocalypse.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

But in the end all religions point to the same light. In between the light and us, sometimes there are too many rules. The light is here and there are no rules to follow this light.

It's important though to distinguish between religion and spirituality.

Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.

Well, let's distinguish religion from spirituality. I am Catholic, so religion for me is a way of having discipline and collective worship with persons who share the same mystery.

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.