Quotes About Religion

In the course of the argument Socrates remarks that the controversial nature of morals and religion arises out of the difficulty of verifying them.

La santidad es lo que agrada a los dioses, y la impiedad es lo que les desagrada.

He is the God who sits in the center, on the navel of the earth, and he is the interpreter of religion to all mankind

In any event, if people want to believe in God, I have no problem with them. But if they want to tell me that God is a kind of truth or knowledge that I am ignorant of, I ask them how I can be more educated. They usually say, First you have to have faith. Then I realize their knowledge is personal and holds nothing for me, or for society. - Greg Graffin

Nous sommes tous perdus, car c'est une bonne et sainte personne qui à été brulée.

fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.

Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.

Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world. —

Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and the enslaved could know with certainty.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

She said those bell people are possibly religious freaks, and we are holiday-only lapsed Catholics who support homosexuality and a woman's right to choose.

The greatest act of love—indeed, the only religion she could comprehend—was to speak the truth about the world.

It is not God's will," Aaron quoted, "that Jews should wager on the Messiah as dicers will.

Marrano" was the Spanish word for "pig." Pretty much sums up Catholic Spain's view of Jews.)

The idea that there's good and evil knowledge . . . well, that's strictly a religious point of view. Actions can be either moral or immoral, yes, but knowledge can't be labeled that way. To a scientist, to any educated man or woman, all knowledge is morally neutral.

Fear is the engine that drives the human animal. Humanity sees the world as a place of uncountable threats, and so the world becomes what humanity imagines it to be. They not only live in fear but use fear to control one another. Fearmongering is their true religion.

The penitent face of the religieuse collapsed into the greedy hookworm maw, as though it ate its own false countenance

Human beings could hate to the point of killing whom they hated, based on class and race and politics and religion and mere envy.

But once in a while, they have to see one of their own get his package cut off just so they'll stop and wonder if maybe there is a god.

On Religion: I'm reluctant to believe that some statue of the Holy Mother wept real tears in a church in Cincinnati or Peoria or Teaneck last week after the Wednesday-night bingo games, witnesses only by two teenagers and the parish cleaning lady. And I'm not ready to believe that a shadow resembling Jesus, cast on someone's garage wall by a yellow bug light, is a sign of impending apocalypse. God works in mysterious ways, but not with bug lights and garage walls. Dean Koontz Cold Fire

Monica was deeply religious and had yet to distinguish the differences between faith and religion.

Who could help laughing at a group of people who heatedly declared that God was dead and clung to the belief that Elvis was alive?