Quotes About Religion

When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance.

The religious conviction that challenges us to see the image of God in every person is an absolute barrier to the practice of torture.

Oh, then you must be the religious Left." No, not at all, and the very question is the problem. Just because a religious Right has fashioned itself for political power in one utterly predictable ideological guise does not mean that those who question this political seduction must be their opposite political counterpart.

Exclusively private faith degenerates into a narrow religion, excessively preoccupied with individual and sexual morality while almost oblivious to the biblical demands for public justice. In the end, private faith becomes a merely cultural religion providing the assurance of righteousness for people just like us.

Stay groovy/To keep the axis turning so that love follows music as the night the day/You hypnotize people to where they go right back to their natural state,like in childhood when you get natural highs.And when they come down off,they see clearer,feel different things.It's all spiritual/The idea is to get your own self together/What you do is your religion ?Starting at Zero?

It seems somewhat illogical to say, You have violated God's commandment 'Thou shalt not kill,' so therefore I will kill you.

An Ursuline nun was the first pharmacist in Louisiana.

Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")

But any religion would be found lacking if judged solely by its human servants.

Cross my heart and hope to die. I wonder where that comes from." "It's a reference to the crucifixion. It's like knock on wood . That's a reference to the wooden cross.

I don't think that white collar gives you sole right of access to the divine.

That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.

CHURCH, not CHOCOLATE, is the TRUE MEANING of EASTER!!

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

Como gran arabista que era, recordó que en el Corán, Mahoma consideraba venerables a los locos, por el hecho de que Alá les había arrebatado el juicio a fin de que no pecaran.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

Once, in second grade, Kate drew a picture of a firefighter with a halo above his helmet. She told her class that I would only be allowed to go to Heaven, because if I went to Hell, I'd put out all the fires. ~Brian Fitzgerald

That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

I don't belong to a religion. Religion's the reason the world's falling apart... That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy, Shay said. Just holier-than-thou.

Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place. When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right. As unscientific as it seems, well, it would be nice to lay the responsibilities and pain on someone else's larger shoulders.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?