Religion Quotes

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

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.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

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.

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

We are religious by nature.

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.

Who knows most, doubts most.

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

Fear is religion, courage is science.

Speculation is not knowledge.

By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.

Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion implies revelation.

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

My religion is to be alive from LOVE.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.