Religion Quotes

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

The Exploitation of Religion Must Be Opposed.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Without God all things are permitted.

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is God.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

You're only as sick as your secrets.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter.

I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.