Religion Quotes

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

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.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

I broke with my religion in college.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

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.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.