Quotes About Religion

I am evangelical and believe much in God.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

I'm evangelical.

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

The shift of awareness is most important key to the road of peace. Peace sought by single nation or religion will inevitably generate conflict. Only peace centered on encompassing the whole Earth can lead us to the "promised land" of ancient wisdom.

I believe tha t the two most important focal points for all of humanity in the twenty-first century are the Earth and the human brain. The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central azis around twhich world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth herself

debía acreditar que entre sus antepasados no existía ningún converso musulmán o judío.

dejaba la educación de los niños obreros en manos de religiosos que les inculcaban aquellas ideas que debían llevarlos a la admisión de las clases sociales como designio divino, para que renunciaran a su libertad y se humillaran y sometieran pacíficamente a los privilegiados, todo bajo la promesa de un mundo mejor tras la muerte.

nunca te fíes de quienes dicen servir a Dios. Te hablarán con serenidad y buenas palabras, tan cultas que no alcanzarás a entenderlas. Tratarán de convencerte con argumentos que sólo ellos saben hilvanar hasta adueñarse de tu razón y tu conciencia.

La cultura nos hará libres para evitar la superstición con la que pretenden envolver nuestra vida los curas y los frailes y, sobre todo, para educar a nuestros hijos en la virtud, en la libertad, en la igualdad y en la fraternidad…

The resurrection of Jesus is pure myth.

The new atheism has attracted considerable attention today, but apart from the public hype, it offers no substantial change or direction to modernity's problems. Religion may be the opium of the masses but atheism offers no new yeast as leaven for the masses.

Don't you find it fascinating, boy-o, that the people who call on God the most believe in God the least?

Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind .

I identify it (i.e., Kadesh Barnea) with Mecca.

Seharusnya Islam adalah sebuah agama bagi seluruh dunia, terlepas dari ras, bahasa maupun kebudayaan. Tidak masuk akal bahwa Tuhan mengharapkan semua orang di seluruh dunia untuk belajar membaca tulisan Arab, bukan?

Yang disebut sekolah-sekolah Islam di Inggris menyedot habis energi murid-muridnya dengan memaksa mereka membaca dan mengingat-ngingat ayat Al-Qur'an dalam bahasa Arab, yang maknanya tidak dimengerti oleh para murid maupun guru. Jika memang ada diskusi mengenai Islam, sang Imam (yang terkadang bahkan tidak bisa bahasa Inggris) bebas mendefinisikan Islam sesuai kehendaknya, dan siapa yang bisa membantah?

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.

What Buddhism failed to give, Shintoism offered in abundance.