Religion Quotes

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

The breathtaking inanity of the [school] Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

You got your God and so do I.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

Christianity is a fighting religion.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.

If you have a religion it must be cosmic.

I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.