Religion Quotes

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.