Religion Quotes

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

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.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.