Religion Quotes

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'

Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.

The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the religion's foundation.

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I don't bring religion into the square.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.