Religion Quotes

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbour a nonphysical mind.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.

Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

My degree was in Depth Psychology and Religion, so I can really speak directly about pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga.

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Fear first created the gods.

We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious.

We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.

”Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion.”

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Wars have always started over religion