Religion Quotes

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

There's no religion but sex and music.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

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?

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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.