Religion Quotes

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

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.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.