Religious Quotes

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

Muhammad, my friend, I'm getting very scared. Teach me how to love my brothers who don't know the law, and what about the deal on the flying trapeze?

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

I’m from Texas…the bigger the hair, the closer to God!

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

I didn't have a very religious family.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

Ive always been a religious person.

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

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.

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

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.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

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.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.