Religion Quotes

Let's talk about real fake news. If this were about a religion or if this were about a Muslim ban, then how come the largest Muslim nation on the planet...Indonesia, exactly, isn't listed?

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

Rumi is one of the great spokesmen for the Quranic instruction teaching that all prophets come from God and God does not create one religion, but many religions.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

No one can have two viewpoints about terrorism. There is no religion of terrorism. I am often asked my viewpoint on this, maybe because i am very proud to be a Muslim

Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable.

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Infinite strength is religion and God.

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.