Religion Quotes

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.

It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.

Although we have not assigned God a sexual orientation, a height, or eye color, we have thought nothing of assigning a gender and a religion (God always belongs to the same one we do).

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Islam, the religion of peace and any terrorism that happens, is not really Islamic or Islamic inspired. This is called a willful blindness. It's also political correctness.

I'm just warning you here: Don't anybody ask about the president's religion! Don't even get close to going there. Don't do it. That is a forbidden area. You cannot even ask about it.

Liberalism is [ CNN infobabes] religion; it's all a matter of faith. Nobody attacking it is gonna be listened to.

Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas).

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.