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Quotes About Religion

One religion or another-- whatever gets it ready, in position. One fatherland or another-- whatever helps it get a running start. Justice also works well at the outset until hate gets its own momentum going. Hatred. Hatred.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I am very afraid of the devil. A strange confession from the lips of an unbeliever.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Gdy w domu sÄ…siadów pokazujÄ… wam z nabo?eÅ"stwem sygnet prapradziadka, wolno pomyÅ›le?, ?e tera?niejszo?? tej rodziny musi by? pod zdechÅ'ym Azorem, skoro przeszÅ'o?? tak jej imponuje.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
~ Wolfgang Pauli
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
~ Unknown
I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
~ Woody Allen
Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.
~ Woody Allen
Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.
~ Woody Allen
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
~ Woody Allen
If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
~ Woody Allen
Na realidade, prefiro a ciência à religião. Se me fizerem escolher entre Deus e o ar condicionado, fico com o ar.
~ Woody Allen
I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity.
~ Woody Allen
If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.
~ Woody Allen
In those days, Chicago had a joint called the Black Angus that had ribs the taste of which gave life meaning you couldn't get from religion, psychoanalysis, or great art.
~ Woody Allen
I was with Billy Graham once, and he said that even if it turned out in the end that there is no God and the universe is empty, he would still have had a better life than me. I understand that. If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life.
~ Woody Allen
You can tell from my movies; while some are entertaining, no idea I ever had is going to start any new religion.
~ Woody Allen
We had some fine chats about Jesus, Homer, and the Rig Veda from a strictly automotive point of view.
~ Woody Allen
The major difference between human and other life forms on our planet is our ability to reason and to question. For just a moment, try to deliberately free your mind from what you have been told about religion, evolution, birth, death, God, and other concepts you have about why you're here on earth.
~ Wu Wei
Tú crees que sea pecado comulgar varias veces en un día? Es un abuso, ya sé, pero igual lo emparejas dando más limosna.
~ Xavier Velasco
Either Plato and Xenophon are involved in a massive cover-up, or there were factors peculiar to Athenian State religion which make Socrates guilty as charged. We can only hope that the former alternative is not the case, since Plato's and Xenophon's accounts are practically our only evidence on Socrates' views.
~ Xenophon
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
~ Yann Martel
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.
~ Yann Martel
Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God.
~ Yann Martel
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
~ Yann Martel