Quotes About Religion

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

What are they fighting about?" Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture." "Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.