Quotes About Religion

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

I always suspected the perpetrators of both good and evil probably would have behaved the same way, God or no God.

The Muslim, the modernist, and the Christian each believes that his or her story alone is the true story of the world, that the Enlightenment story of human progress, or the Koran, or the Bible will ultimately be acknowledged by all to be true. But note that these stories cannot coexist as uniquely true. We must choose.

Rather than experiencing the richness of a dynamic, intimate relationship with the righteous One, you put God in a little box that you can check off your to-do list each week. By settling for rules and religion and feeling pretty good about how much you're doing for the church and those less fortunate, you become blinded to legalism and self-righteousness.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

Like some strange little religion all its own, the one thing that makes the whole system work is the one thing that it robs you of - faith.

Like anything else, I think organized religion, like most human endeavors, is good when it's doing good and I think it's bad when it's doing bad.

I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.

Right. I guess it must be comforting to actually believe in God and Jesus and all that. It must fill in all that space so you don't have to worry about it anymore. But it's a bit like closing a door when there's a cold draft, isn't it? It's still cold out there, it's just that you don't notice anymore because you're warm.

There's no such thing as God, Charlie, at least not how they say.

The poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, said of women, "They ought to mind home, and be well fed and clothed, but not mixed in society. Well educated, too, in religion, but to read neither poetry nor politics—nothing but books of piety and cookery. Music, drawing, dancing, also a little gardening and ploughing now and then.

Jesus died for his own sins, not mine.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo. Am

Descubrir a Dios entre las sábanas —no en el templo fariseo ni en la altiva mezquita— sábanas blancas sudario del amor que te cubría manto sagrado iniciar la bienaventurada ascensión de tu piel a la eternidad de tu vientre al círculo celestial sentir a Dios en tus húmedas cavidades en el grito vertiginoso de la jauría de tus vísceras

But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers.

read that according to Shinto, the ancient religion of Japan, the invisible space of a doorway is what both separates and unites two opposite worlds. It is still everyday tradition for a visitor approaching someone's home to call out, "Ojama shimasu." Used in the same way, we might say, "May I come in?" The literal translation is, "I am about to disturb you.

Well, one shouldn't smoke when he's drunk and one mustn't fall in love with a girl who isn't the right religion.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

El verdadero opio del pueblo es la creencia en la nada después de la muerte; el gran consuelo que trae pensar que no vamos a ser juzgados por nuestras traiciones, avaricia, cobardía y crímenes

I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.

Neither of us knew that the other liked this sort of thing." "People don't talk about it. That's why. You can know people for years and yet not know in the very least what they think about religion.

Only about 15 percent of white Americans belonged to any church during the colonial period.

Theology can only be done in cultural form.