Quotes About Religion

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Just because you don't go to church Sunday morning doesn't mean you forfeit your right of having any help or guidance from God.

No matter how busy you are don't forget to thank your parents and God for everything that you have.

Ezekiel looked into amber and saw God, but the Teutonic Knights saw something less noble: gold.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.

They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a secular justice where human beings are presumed innocent. You can't have both.

Popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and monks carrying on with women, girls, boys, and each other? Hardly ever discussed! Not that there was anything wrong with carrying on— it's hypocrisy that stinks, not sex. But the Church torturing, murdering, crusading against, or infecting with disease millions of people in the name of our Lord the Savior, from Arabia to the Americas? Acknowledged with useless, pious regret, if even that.

The Communists are evil. They don't believe in God and they don't believe in money.

This was the silence my father encountered every day during his prayers, the silence that hundreds of millions heard every day as they beseeched God to say something, anything. He always said nothing, which hardly disabused His legions of fans. For someone who never said anything, God certainly spoke to a lot of people.

For a man who in his friendships and acquaintance looked upon religion and nationality as both significant and irrelevant, the changing composition of the High Court was a cause for sadness.

A person soon forgets about God as soon as he recovers from sickness.

God really doesn't reside in any temple, he is just an imposter who stays outside it for some time and meanwhile we fail to recognise and miss him.

He who doesn't go to temple in bad weather will go to hell when it is fair.

He who steals in order to give to God can only get advice from the devil.

The man who leaves his family will be left by God.

The man who steals in order to give to God will only get advice from the devil.

I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

The Bauls are without customs, conventions or canons. Their guru is sunya, "emptiness". There's no worship in Mosque or Temple or on special holy day. At every step I have my Mecca and Kasi [Banaras]; sacred is every moment. The great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore said: "Bauls exemplify the one and only religion, the Religion of Man.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

Men who were frightened to read the entire Koran because they knew they would be confronted with the words of a prophet who would never condone their actions.