In this post, you will find great Religion Quotes from famous people, such as Tony Wilson, Swami Sivananda, Karl Barth, Louie Schwartzberg, William Blake. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
I’m not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the church.
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it’s too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
For me, what’s the old expression, ‘Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,’ that’s really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television.
Religion’s in the heart, not in the knees.
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need.
If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn’t discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It’s something else. It’s something other.
I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don’t understand it.
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
It was part of your religion to hate the British.
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism – nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Real religion is no religion at all.
At the heart of ‘The Famished Road’ is a philosophical conundrum – for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody’s reality is subjective; it’s conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what’s happened to you.
I’m just sick of the way things are. We’re in an age in which we can’t live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy… What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
Balenciaga was my religion. Since I’m a believer, for me, there’s Balenciaga, and the good Lord.
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Religion is something we don’t talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men’s souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
I’m a practicing Christian – and I’m going to keep practicing till I get it right – but I don’t feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
Religion is just mind control.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don’t flaunt religion in conversation with others.
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
I come from a Catholic religion, but I’m not Catholic.
I’ve got no problem with anybody‘s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.
If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He’s never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.
Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn’t religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
One may fall in love anytime and with anyone. One does not decide that based on caste, religion or gender.
Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole – it’s about human connections.
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That’s not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It’s anything but that.
Most people don’t want to talk about politics and religion. They say, ‘Let’s talk about something else.’
Religion comes from the word ‘re’ or again and ‘ligare’ meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental.
I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you’d be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.
Needless to say, oftentimes a ‘religion’ is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind.
I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it’s a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it’s a risk. If you discuss religion, it’s a risk. But you can’t really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I’m committed to that society… and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, ‘He’s avoiding it.’ If I do talk about it, it becomes, ‘Oh, he’s proselytizing.’
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
I’m fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it’s so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
We are against politics of religion and caste.
I’m looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don’t matter to me. I want someone who’s qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
It’s not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It’s that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.
Any time scientists disagree, it’s because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I’m right, or you’re right, or we’re both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
The doctor didn’t want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That’s religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn’t want to give those up.
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
There’s a lot of misunderstanding out there, particularly in the difference between religion and culture. For example, I hear people criticise Islam for arranged marriages, but that’s nothing to do with Islam. It is the culture in some places, but it’s actually against Islam.
I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
My religion is inclusivity.
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult – these are the things I’m most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I’m very passionate about cinema.
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
I’m ready for a Christianity that ‘ruins‘ my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and… well… dangerous. Yes, I want to be ‘dangerous’ to a dull and boring religion.
I don’t practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
I don’t know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that’s all you can do in life.
I wasn’t raised a Catholic, but Yolanthe was, and I wanted to get more involved in her religion.
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn’t supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
My definition, the definition that I’ve always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one’s own military legion – in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I’ve also learned that this loyalty to one’s corps travels both ways: up and down.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it… The effect that it has had on people’s minds.
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It’s perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they’ll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
I don’t have a religion. I believe in a God. I don’t know what it looks like but it’s MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
I don’t go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.
Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‘superlive,’ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
In my opinion, love is not about gender, it’s not about religion. Love has no borders and no boundaries.
I’m still very much an atheist, except that I don’t necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that’s a weird thing that I’m struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
I feel like ‘Leftovers‘ is dealing with subject matter that’s kind of taboo when you’re talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.
When Jews left Judaism, they didn’t stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
I have faith, but I’m not the biggest fan of organised religion. There’s a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can’t believe in any of it.
I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
While in some countries there’s a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India – in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
I don’t do politics, I don’t do religion, I don’t do ethnic jokes.
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. Where justice is truly real for all of us, regardless of race, class, gender, orientation, or religion. I fully believe we can.
Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it’s culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
My life was changed in one breath from God.
Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It’s all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
The earth is the Lord’s fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.
Before anything else, I’m a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private.
I’ve taken a stand against religion for as long I’ve been able to write and think.
I’m a Christian, but I don’t believe in religion or anything like that.
I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don’t have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
I wasn’t raised with a specific religion. I wasn’t raised to judge people in any way.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more – I could be martyred for my religion – Love is my religion – I could die for that.
I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.
You’re always going to have extremists in every religion.
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Religion is run by thought police. ‘Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don’t ask questions. Go die for your country.’ The spirituality says, ‘Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you’re doing while you’re doing it.’
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.
One person’s religion is another person’s cult.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
I’m not really into religion.
I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.
Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that’s inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.
What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.
I’m going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, ‘Dad, why don’t you wear that at work?’ And he said, ‘Your religion should be in your actions.’ He set a great, great example.
I’m fascinated by religion, but I’m not particularly religious.
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it’s our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‘feeling’ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money.
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
I’ve never had any religion. I’d prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn’t make myself believe.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.
I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
I’m not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.
I don’t think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn’t already know about religion. It has long been obvious – even to the deeply religious – that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
Those nations that say it’s a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they’re doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.
I’m not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism‘s ‘social naturalism’ (the claim that all beliefs have their origins in social practice) and religion’s supernaturalism (the claims that its beliefs are underwritten by divine will).
I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
