Quotes About Religion

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.