Religion Quotes

[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.

Jesus was a crackpot.

People sometimes ask me , what religion are you ? i always answer by saying, ''i am a little part of all religions and and a big part of no religion

Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed. ... Each person should have his own religion - there should be as many religions as there are people!

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

The First Amendment says keep government out of religion. It doesn't say keep religion out of government.

You can tell a person's religion 85 percent of the time from their phone records.

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.