Religion Quotes

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.