Religion Quotes

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

Evolution ... is opportunistic, hence unpredictable.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.