Quotes About Religion

El fanatismo en la guerra, del tipo que impulsó las conquistas cristianas e islámicas que conocemos por la historia, fue probablemente desconocido en la Tierra hasta el surgimiento de las jefaturas y, sobre todo, de los estados en los últimos 6.000 años.

Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

Joffy had decided many years before that the problem with religion wasn't religion itself but its flagrant misuse as an absolutist argument to promote narrow tribal agendas.

GSD?' murmured Mycroft. 'What in heaven's name is that?' 'Global Standard Deity,' answered Polly. 'It's a mixture of all the religions. I think it's meant to stop religious wars.

Remember, Thursday, that scientific thought – indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else – is just like the fashions that we wear – only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.

era un católico de misa diaria, un hombre lleno de buenas intenciones y un creyente en la bondad natural del ser humano. En definitiva, un sujeto peligroso.

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.

Opium resembles religion insofar as a magician resembles Jesus.

Can s?k?c? bir budalal??? betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklar?na din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuÄŸu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öÄŸrendiÄŸi din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlat?rken, söylediklerini aç?klamak zorunda b?rak?rd?m.

Know thyself,' said Socrates. Know thyself,' said Sappho, 'and make sure that the Church never finds out.

I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.

You said, 'Why do I frighten you?' Frighten me? Yes you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together for ever. You act as though there is infinite pleasure and time without end. How can I know that? My experience has been that time always ends. In theory you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the romantics and the religious are right.

I love her. Then you do not love the Lord. Yes, I love both of them. You cannot. I do.

I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.

I would never pull down a church! I adore churches. It is what happens inside them that I detest.

The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off his body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh. They don't say that through the flesh we are set free. That our desire for another will lift us out of ourselves more cleanly than anything divine.

She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy.

Hardship is a man-made device because man cannot exist without passion. Religion is somewhere between fear and sex.

I didn't know quite what fornicating was, but I had read about it in Deuteronomy, and I knew it was a sin. But why was it so noisy? Most sins you did quietly so as not to get caught.

And God? Truly? In his own right, without our voices speaking for him? Obsessed I think, but not passionate.