Religion Quotes

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

There should be a harmonious blend of religion, philosophy and art for man to live healthily in the world.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

There is only one religion in the world-hard work

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

We are for religion against the religions.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.

In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.