Quotes About Religion

Respect is like a religion. It is more than just a lifestyle. You may live with it, or die without it.

Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.

If I no longer know that my redeemer liveth, I know that he speaketh not like Tony Blair.

Mankind in the Christian era possesses one huge advantage over the ancients: a bad conscience. —EGON FRIEDELL,

Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian.

No true God demands mindless belief and punishes the honesty of those who admit their doubt. The Mother knows you must doubt, to understand, to grow in wisdom.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Love is the religion and the universe is the book.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.

Faith should be at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We're so desperate for it we gladly allow ourselves to be shortchanged just so we can believe in something.

So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And communism had brought him back full circle to poverty. There was a PhD dissertation waiting to be written about such a cycle.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Religion is inconceivable apart from revelation, and revelation cannot occur apart from the existence of a spiritual world above and behind this visible world, a spiritual world in communion with the visible world.

To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible

religious experience is neither the source nor the foundation of religious truth;

Philosophy arose out of religion,