Religion Quotes

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

Toleration is the best religion.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.