Religion Quotes

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

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

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.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.