Religion Quotes

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.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

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

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

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.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.