Quotes About Religion

I just want to lobby for God.

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

The Lord Jesus is my Vitamin C.

All I can say is God loves this country. We all know it. We wouldn't be where we are without him.

Religion is man-made. Every religion says my 'God is the best.'

There are, however, Christians and people of other faiths who seem to have no trouble speaking of God's ultimacy with one breath and staking out a private territory of God's activity and grace with the next.

The assault, it seemed, was relentless. Tongue in cheek, he writes, "Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side." The

Not long ago the world looked on the dark ages with contempt for its brutality, yet here it is again, in full force, a lawless sadism unpolished by all the charms of religion and civilization. Sitting

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds

How could anyone reconcile the agony of the Holocaust with Hasidism, a dancing religion that teaches love, joy, and celebration?

Rebuilt in Victorian times, it retained the modesty of its medieval origins. Small and neat, its spire indicated the direction of heaven without trying to pierce a hole in it.

He had given up trying to make her believe only what was true, she had been raised to the kind of religion that could admit no difference between what was true and what was good.

I've never believed in God. But I believe in Picasso.

I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

If religion is so bad, what should be done about it? It should be eradicated. According to Sam Harris, belief in Christianity is like belief in slavery. "I would be the first to admit that the prospects for eradicating religion in our time do not seem good. Still the same could have been said about efforts to abolish slavery at the end of the eighteenth century."6 But

The future is always unpredictable, but one trend seems clear. God is the future, and atheism is on its way out.

There is the story of the English vicar who was asked whether he expected to go to heaven, and what he thought he would find there. Well, I suppose I believe in eternal bliss, if it comes to that, he replied, but I wish you wouldn't bring up such depressing subjects.

Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion "must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.

Illegal immigration is not merely a mechanism for changing the political, religious and cultural composition of America; it is literally a mechanism for changing, in ways that Americans have not agreed to and immigration laws have not authorized, the actual DNA of America.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Sacrifice is the secret — you have to sacrifice things for art and it's the same with religion; and then the sacrifice turns out to be a gain." Then I got confused and I couldn't hold on to what I meant — until Miss Blossom remarked: "Nonsense, duckie — it's perfectly simple. You lose yourself in something beyond yourself and it's a lovely rest.

me daba la sensación de que alguien tan destrozado como yo debía recibir ayuda de la Iglesia. A continuación dije para mis adentros que, como no pensaba en la Iglesia cuando era feliz, difícilmente podía esperar algo cuando no lo era. No se puede cobrar el seguro sin abonar las cuotas.

Vicar: You ought to try [religion], one of these days, he said. I believe you'd like it. I said: but I have tried it, haven't I? I've been to church. It never seems to take.

In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry-- in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.