Religion Quotes

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.