Religion Quotes

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.