Religion Quotes

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!

The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

Ideas that change business models and that can make money are the most threatening, outside actual religion.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

It is a pity that many Christians have the TV schedule better memorized than a single chapter for God's precious Word.

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.