Quotes About Religion

Muchas enseñanzas religiosas en el mundo son en realidad una forma confusa o deteriorada, muy diferente a sus raíces.

El Sufismo, dicen, es aquello que le permite a uno entender la religión, cualquiera sea su actual forma exterior.

Dicho del Profeta Distribución Dios es quien otorga; yo tan sólo soy un distribuidor.

La ciencia deteriorada es un culto, así como el Sufismo deteriorado o imitativo.

Dicho del Profeta Monacato No hay monjes en el Islam.

The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obsession for faith, are themselves destroyers of the very thing which they imagine themselves called upon to try to protect. In fact, of course, they have no such call: and their capacity to protect something which is other than their imaginings makes for a comical situation.

Unbelief itself is a religion with its own form of belief.

La incredulidad misma es una religión con su propia forma de creencia.

Spirituality is the essence of religion. And there is, again, an essence of spirituality; Sufism is the essence of essences.

La espiritualidad: la esencia de la religión. Y también hay, una esencia de la espiritualidad: el Sufismo es la esencia de las esencias.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist.

They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband." It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.

while eight of the bottom ten were all states dominated by Yankees, with Massachusetts and the three northern New England states ranking the least religious of all.

Faith is wider than you may know.

Let us all unite under the banner of divinity.

My faith is stronger than ever, even when the church is not.