Quotes About Religion

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

I used to think God only liked organ music.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society.

History shows the power-grab in every religion once it gets organised. And then it's people making you do things that you don't agree with and setting the rules. But it does mean something to me to believe that we are not alone - the human animal is quite a scary thing, left on its own.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.

We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it.

Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commune with like-minded people is not only biological, it's what has helped motivate our desire for and devotion to all kinds of important cultural institutions, from organized religion to sports fandom.

Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I felt disenfranchisement. I felt so much abuse from organized religion because I'm walking in a direction that a lot of them couldn't fathom and can't understand.

I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

One of the hallmarks of the American justice system is that it should be blind to individuals' idiosyncratic descriptors, including biological sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or physical attributes.

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin.

When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.