Religion Quotes

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

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.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

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.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

The world is my country, science is my religion.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.