Religion Quotes

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Churches and mosques you shall not heed / The religion of Albanians is Albanism

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

Power is the goal of religion in general.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

I don't believe in atheists.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

I don’t approve of religion.

Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.