Religion Quotes

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

My religion is life, and my church is the universe.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

The only way for mankind to survive is for religion to die.

Religion is bad and drugs are good.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.