Religion Quotes

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.