Quotes About Religion

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

I'm open to all religions. Respecting Scientology is just like respecting any other religious view.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

My political view really comes from a biblical perspective.

In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

My view on Islam is that it is not so much a religion as a totalitarian political ideology with religious elements.

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.

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

In Jack's view, you were obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning.

Having your own church doesn't make you a good guy. It only makes you tax-exempt.

I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.

I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you. I would—

The fear of displeasing God and failing our religious responsibilities is so great that it pushes most members to do anything for the priesthood. For many women, this means they must sacrifice their own desires, needs, and feelings to conform to those of their husband and their religious beliefs.

Although I doubt He [Jesus] said "believeth" as He was Jewish and not a fancy-pants English fellow.

I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.

God gave woman a clitoris--a small little bit of flesh with only one purpose--transcendent sexual pleasure. So how is it that some people believe God and sex shouldn't be in the same sentence?

Be she alewife, fishmonger, washerwoman, or whore; the woman who fucks my whole cock shall I take to church's door.

You see, although my parents had both been saved as teenagers and loved the Lord, we didn't attend church regularly.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.