Religion Quotes

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.