Religion Quotes

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

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.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

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.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

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.

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.

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

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

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.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.