Religious Quotes

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

We are religious by nature.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

All neurotics seek the religious

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Confucius does his crossword with a pen.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It's the same origin.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.