Religion Quotes

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

All religions begin with the cry Help.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.

People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

Love is my religion. Hey you can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it.