Religion Quotes

"Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods."

"When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence."

"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."

"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."

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

"My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god."

"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."

"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

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

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

"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

"Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations."

"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion."

"My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It's not talked about that much."

"My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity."

"It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late."

"Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive."

"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."

"I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush."

"Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide."

"If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest."

"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."

"I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness."

"Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity."

"Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all citizens to freely practice their creed."

"Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion."

"To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion."

"We want to lead Catholics to Christ. I believe it is a false religion."

"The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't."

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."

"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences."

"Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist."

"If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed."

"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."

"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."

"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."

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."

"Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him."

"Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion."

"The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group - otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion."

"Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse."

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

"Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion."

"Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting."

"Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive."

"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."

"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true."

"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."