Religion Quotes

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It's helped so many people.

I got my own way of praying.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

Religion is no more national than conscience.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

Anytime you have a thought, for example, that excludes someone, if you have a religion that excludes someone, then you've really left God behind, and you've really left your source energy behind.

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Religion is caught, not taught.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.