Religion Quotes

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

"I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind."

"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

"I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region."

"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."

"Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society."

"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."

"I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme."

"If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him."

"I think Americans did learn that you just are not going to be able to live well if you subordinate people on the grounds of their religion."

"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies."

"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."

"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."

"The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe."

"It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."

"There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people."

"When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom."

"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."

"Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences."

"I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder."

"I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it."

"Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples."

"One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all."

"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex."

"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."

"Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly."

"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich."

"I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours."

"Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others."

"Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act."

"It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery."

"Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium."

"The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important."

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

"I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it."

"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."

"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."

"I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us."

"Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?"

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."

"I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods."