Religion Quotes

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.