Quotes About Religion

The Bible, or Scripture, is the ultimate authority and first principle of the Christian system, and it is the source of our knowledge about God and the things of God.

Christians should not attempt to defend a general theism, but a definite biblical idea of God.

Regardless of how one has come to be deceived, believing in a false version of God is spiritually destructive.

Christian God does not serve Islam or Mormon interests at all. In fact, establishing the existence of the Christian God automatically refutes Islam and Mormonism, since their views of God are incompatible.

Any person who fears God is superior in wisdom to one who does not fear God. Thus all Christians are superior to all non-Christians.

All human beings are creatures of God, but not all are his children – non-Christians are children of the devil (John 8:44).

All non-Christian systems of thought begin, proceed, and end in intellectual and practical failure. Thus God has made all non-Christian religions and philosophies foolish and futile.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

Osecaj, cak i istancan osecaj za lepotu prirode nije jednak religioznom osecanju, mada verujem da su oba intimno povezana... gotovo svako poseduje osecaj za prirodu... ali samo malo njih oseca: Bog je duh, i onoi koji u njega veruju, moraju to ciniti i u duhu i u stvarnosti.

Cuando siento una necesidad de religión, salgo de noche y pinto las estrellas.

I think it a splendid saying of Victor Hugo's, "les religions passent, mais Dieu demure" [religions pass away, but God remains];

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don't differ from science.

Books about colonization in early America more typically dwell on themes of politics, trade, religion, demography, and warfare. Without discounting the importance of these topics (for each has a place here) and with no intention of offering a monocausal explanation for complex events, this book argues that sometimes mundane decisions about how to feed pigs or whether or not to build a fence also could affect the course of history.

And so I came on the discovery with no warning. Religion must be for trusting. And trusting, what is that for? I figured it out: It helps you go on when you can't go on.

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

El capitalismo es una religión igualitarista, puesto que nos somete a todos y nos lleva a todos a sentirnos atrapados, como lo están todas las mujeres.

Comprendre les mécaniques de notre infériorisation, et comment nous sommes amenées à en être le meilleurs vigiles, c'est comprendre les mécaniques de contrôle de toute la population. Le capitalisme est une religion égalitariste, en ce sens qu'elle nous soumet tous, et amène chacun à se sentir piégé, comme le sont toutes les femmes.

Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.

Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.

The opposition of reason and religion that runs through the French Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, which identified religion with the Catholic Church, would have been incomprehensible to Leibniz, and a like opposition never gained a footing in German culture even after him. On the contrary, the acutest critic of Christianity, Nietzsche, shows his German roots by the fact that he simultaneously wages war on reason - which would again have been incomprehensible to Voltaire.

This is a particular idea in all our teachings which I like, either in philosophy, or in religion, or in work. If you read the Vedas, you will find this word always repeated — fearlessness — fear nothing. Fear is a sign of weakness. A man must go about his duties without taking notice of the sneers and the ridicule of the world.

religion does not consist of doctrines or dogmas. It is not what you read nor what dogmas you believe that is of importance, but what you realize. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," yea, in this life. And that is salvation

The roots of modern religion are deeply embedded in the social oppression of the working masses.