Religion Quotes

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine.

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

...but I also can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.