Quotes About Religion

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Unity in faith is theocracy unity in politics is fascism.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.