Religion Quotes

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.