Religion Quotes

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

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.

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

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.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.