Religion Quotes

"My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray."

"God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion."

"It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality."

"Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments."

"Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology."

"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."

"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."

"One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or physical attributes."

"It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that."

"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."

"God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion."

"If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."

"It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'"

"Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better."

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."

"Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need."

"People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste."

"Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle."

"If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth."

"Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human."

"Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold."

"Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion."

"Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just."

"Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."

"What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in."

"Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print."

"You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions."

"The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims."

"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone."

"The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not."

"If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas."

"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."

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

"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."

"Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous."

"You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government."

"We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies."

"The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity."

"It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have."

"No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States."

"Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood."

"The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good."

"We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it."

"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."

"Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes."

"If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion."

"All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion."

"Religion and slavery are incompatible."

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