Religion Quotes

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

Even without a religion, we can become a good human being.

My religion is kindness. A good mind, a good heart, warm feelings these are the most important things.

What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute.

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

It's the old shell game.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.

Whatever your religion is, it's to fully realize your potential of love. Is to have fully realized self love then you can give love to others around you and to whatever, whoever you meet.