Quotes About Religion

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

Religion is as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of a rope

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure

When you accustom people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins... you will have sins in abundance

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned

A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chainsaw

Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God.

much of what the church calls sin is simply being human.

People ought to be a lot quicker to listen to each other and a little slower to listen to something that calls itself a god.

Broad views about life have shrunk into religions, and we have been turned into their symbols. They regard us as empty symbols. Symbols of a religion, a nation. We mustn't be trapped by that. In this war, let that be the ground of your contest. A ground that cannot be reduced to definition and detail.

I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

Zora did not mince words in this chapter and nothing seemed to escape her critical eye. Speaking of Christian hypocrisy, for example, she wrote: "Popes and Prelates, Bishops and Elders have halted sermons on peace at the sound of battle and rushed out of their pulpits brandishing swords and screaming for blood in Jesus' name. The pews followed the pulpit in glee. So it is obvious that the Prince of Peace is nothing more than a symbol.

the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious orthodoxy historically outweighs onslaught by Satanists

When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to people... nobody can bear it when it's linked to religion, but when it's linked to religion that is not mainstream it seems to frighten people more. As if yes, abuse exists, Satanism exists, but you can't have Satanist abuse.

All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.

Ultimately, the character of the region [the Middle East] will be decided in the crucible of Shia revival and the Sunni response to it.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

if it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

It used to be called the Lord's Day, now it is the weekend and if we group all holidays on weekends the devil will have scored another move against Sunday worship.

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.