Religion Quotes

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Spiritual means religion without any rules. It's all the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.

Any religion whose messiah’s name isn’t recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.

We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and I would be the first to say that.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.

Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while".

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another.

Religion is not in fault.

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.

Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .