Religion Quotes

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

One's true religion is what one cares about most.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

There is no contradiction between true religion and science

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Rock music is a vehicle of anti-religion

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe.

Religion is not any particular teaching. Religion is everywhere.

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.