Religion Quotes

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'

Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.

I believe in empathy. When religion provides that for people, it's the best thing in the world.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

I'm going to treat my religion, which is Christian, with great respect and care.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

Religion's voice has been taken away. It was taken away by Lyndon Johnson in the 1970s because of a dispute he had, I think, with the church. And this was his way of silencing the church.

This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

To God's own heart be true.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?