Religion Quotes

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.

Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists.

Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

Rock and roll is my religion.

The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.