Religion Quotes

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

I have no religion, but I can't escape being extremely Jewish ethnically - that is, culturally. In other words, I'm not religious, but I worry and I'm neurotic. And I'm very good with money.

I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

Never have hatred toward any religion.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.

Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I'm very proud to be an Indian.

I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.

SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.

Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)

The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds

Religion is god's population-control tool

Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.