Religion Quotes

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for 
the existence of God.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

Your religion is where your love is.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.

Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.