Religion Quotes

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

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.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

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.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

I do engineering, not religion.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.