Religion Quotes

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

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.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

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.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.