Religion Quotes

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

I broke with my religion in college.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.