Religion Quotes

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

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

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

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.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.