Religion Quotes

It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

Religion is a light in the fog.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith--- any religion.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

Some kneel and lie to God.

As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.