Religion Quotes

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

There's no God higher than truth.

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it.

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.