Religion Quotes

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.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

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.

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.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Wars have always started over religion.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.