Religion Quotes

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Without a Sabbath, no worship; without worship, no religion; and without religion, no permanent freedom.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.

The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

Any religion is a perspective upon existence.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

I believe I have a healthy common sense and therefore have no need for religion.

The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

The true religion of America has always been America.

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

This god, this one word: I.

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.