Religion Quotes

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
– Charles Baudelaire
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
– Ville Valo
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
– Martin Scorsese
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
– Robert Browning
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
– Lionel Blue
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
– Charles De Secondat
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.
– Maimonides
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
– Gary Locke
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
– Denis Diderot
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.
– Jurgen Habermas
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
– Thomas Jefferson
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
– The Dalai Lama
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
– Sydney Schanberg
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
– Karen Armstrong
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
– H. L. Mencken
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
– David Miliband
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
– Lance Loud
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
– Alfred Russel Wallace
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
– Ralph W. Sockman
Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
– Kenneth Scott Latourette
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
– Mary Astell
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
– Madonna Ciccone
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
– William Robertson Smith
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
– Liam Neeson
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
– John Podhoretz
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.
– Javier Bardem
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
– Ernest Holmes
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
– Thurston Moore
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
– Lisa Bonet
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
– Richard Gere
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.
– Moustapha Akkad
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
– Courtney Love
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
– Carol P. Christ
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
– Azar Nafisi
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
– Jon Meacham
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
– George Orwell
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
– Juliana Hatfield
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.
– Christopher Dawson
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
– Josh McDowell
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
– Thomas Paine
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
– Hu Shih
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
– Toni Cade Bambara
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.
– Chaim Potok
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
– Michael Berryman
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
– Bernice Johnson Reagon
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
– Ernest Istook
Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
– Nicole Scherzinger
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
– Abdurrahman Wahid
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
– Ulrich Beck
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
– Abbas Kiarostami
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
– Richard Le Gallienne
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
– John Shelby Spong
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
– John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
– Karen Armstrong
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.
– Stephen Harper
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
– Jeremy Taylor
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
– E. W. Howe
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
– Christy Turlington
A cult is a religion with no political power.
– Tom Wolfe
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
– Michelle Malkin
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
– Richard Adams
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
– Joseph Addison
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
– Muhammad Ali
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
– Fred Allen
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
– Louis Aragon
To understand the place of humans in the universe is to solve a complex problem. Therefore I find it impossible to believe that an understanding based entirely on science or one based entirely on religion can be correct.
– Wilton Robert Abbott
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
– Charles Baudelaire
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.
– Ambrose Bierce
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
– Hugo Black
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
– Kjell Magne Bondevik
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
– Charlotte Bronte
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
– Anita Brookner
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
– Pearl S. Buck
For Processeans, Satan was no crude beast but an intellectual principle by which God could be unfolded into several parts, accomplishing the repaganization of religion and the remystification of the world.
– William Bainbridge
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
– August Bebel
I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.
– David Beckham
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
– Lyman Beecher
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
– Peter Benenson
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
– Richard Chamberlain
The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
– Saxby Chambliss
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.
– Arthur C. Clarke
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
– Eldridge Cleaver
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
– Charles Caleb Colton
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake - the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
– Victor Cousin
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
– William Cowper
Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
– Earl of Chesterfield
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
– Gene Clark
You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.
– Cyril Clarke
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
– Morris Raphael Cohen
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
– Abraham Cowley
Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
– Samuel Daniel
I'm not a religious person. If I get close to religion it's in these moments when people faint and shudder and have orgasms with religious fervor - I don't think they're kidding. And I'm envious.
– David Duchovny
I wanted to be a minister when I first went to college. You see, I was very shy as a kid, and couldn't figure out how to communicate with people. I guess I was trying to get people to listen to me, but I thought I was interested in religion. I realized very quickly that I just wanted to move people and be the center of attention.
– John Davidson
The council not only sanctioned reform, it accelerated it. What this meant was that Catholics tried to solve the riddle of religion and modernity overnight.
– Jay P. Dolan
Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.
– George A. Dorsey
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
– Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
– Albert Einstein
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.
– Albert Einstein
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
– George Eliot