Religion Quotes

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

Wars have always started over religion.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.