Religion Quotes

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.