Religion Quotes

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

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

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I don't think you need religion.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.