Quotes About Religion

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The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories.

Whoever wishes to learn, must begin with the knowledge of the Holy Bible.

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

Religion is an outcome of the human weakness, or The limitation of human knowledge, or the fear.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.