Religion Quotes

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.