Religion Quotes

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

If you look at a person's checkbook and datebook, you know what their religion really is.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

There's a difference between freedom of worship and freedom of religion. Worship is an event that happens inside the house of worship. Religion is a lifestyle. It is a way of living.

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

There's more religion in my little finger than there is in the pope. But no, I don't believe in God. I am an athiest. A Darwinian evolutionist.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

You can never have too much butter - that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.