Quotes About Religion

How do you invent a religion?" Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. "You say, 'God told me the following,' and then wait for people to sign up.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Often enough it is little that can be done in an old country, where life is ruled by fixed and imperious traditions; while much may be done where all is yet fluid, and where, if religion is sometimes unprotected and unrecognised, she is not embarrassed by influences which deaden or cramp her best energies at home.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.

I was raised on science as other people are raised on God, or Gods, or the crocodile.

missionaries are now rushing in droves to the Solomons to convert their wicked souls.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

I can see no other reason for the existence of art and poetry and religion except as they tend to restore in us a freshness of vision and more emotional glamour and more vital sense of life.

You say [slavery] is wrong; but don't you constantly object to anybody else saying so? Do you not constantly argue that this is not the right place to oppose it? You say it must not be opposed in the free States, because slavery is not there; it must not be opposed in the slave States, because it is there; it must not be opposed in politics, because that will make a fuss; it must not be opposed in the pulpit, because it is not religion. Then where is the place to oppose it?

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Congress responded promptly by passing a statute, provocatively titled the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The new law provided that a statute that appeared neutral on its face could not be applied in a way that placed a burden on the practice of religion unless the government could show that the burden served a "compelling interest.

What's happened to you, Daniel?" she asked, seeming more annoyed than curious. "I became a Christian," he said, "a follower of Jesus," and as soon as the words left his mouth, his head became clearer.

God scares me when you get Him indoors.

If God wanted us to believe in him, he'd exist.

But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one,' Faustus said quietly. 'The worse he is, the more he claims – and even believes – that traditional religion and democracy matter to him deeply and determine all his actions.

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephew's money but their souls.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.