Religion Quotes

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew the lines.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

I've always believed that who a reporter votes for, what religion they are, who they love, should not be something they have to discuss publicly.

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

The Universe revealed by science is one of far more awesome grandeur than any religion has ever posited.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I broke with my religion in college.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

I no longer represent any organized religion. I'm not Catholic. I'm not Christian. I'm saying this because I have to be an outsider for Christ.

May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.

Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

Maybe that's why I don't like religion because the first introduction to it was, you don't get to do that thing you just discovered that you really enjoy.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.