Religion Quotes

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Religion is always falling apart.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.

Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.

Responsibility has more salvation in it than religion can bestow.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.