Religion Quotes

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.