Religion Quotes

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

Religion is all bunk.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.