Religion Quotes

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good or ill. But it should not be a powerful weapon at all.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute.

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

If you follow a religion but are devoid of the Love of God, then those that do not follow a religion but have the love of God are better.

It's impossible to escape from religion anywhere you are in the States.

All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing.

The best among all is one who possesses God's love no matter what religion he belongs to.

Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?

Scientology...is not a religion.

I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

We need a new religion.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.