Religion Quotes

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Information is the religion of the modern world.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.

There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.

Money was their God; work their religion.

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Work without contemplation is never enough.

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

All I ever have to be is what you made me.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.