Religion Quotes
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.
Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.
I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...
Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.
As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.
Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.
Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.
If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith.
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?
