Religion Quotes

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

Commerce unites; religion divides.

Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.