Quotes About Religion

This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a "meat market" and that if Heavenly Father didn't intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren't intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren't intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers?

Faith has to come to birth as a free act, not a forced one. Otherwise it has no meaning.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

Fascism is socialism which has been clever enough to fool the vigilance of the church, as no other socialism has done.

I do not know if Saul Alinsky knows God. But I assure you that God knows Saul Alinsky.

All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency.

Nothing describes the feeling of absolute dependence better than religion. The only time people turn to it is when they can't handle their own problems.

The basis of religion is our affection for the household of the holy Prophet.

One of the most significant lessons Jesus taught his disciples was to stop looking for God's life in the regimen of rituals and rules. He came not to refurbish religion, but to offer them a relationship.

Lucy, a girl's name for Lucifer. That my mother would have found me devil-like did not surprise me, for I often thought of her as god-like, and are not the children of gods devils? I did not grow to like the name Lucy-I would have much preferred to be called Lucifer outright-but whenever I saw my name I always reached out to give it a strong embrace.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

The philosopher did not have a practical agenda. That was implicit in his concern for the general, not the particular. This made philosophical politics look attractively different from the self-seeking squabbling of party political debate. On the other hand, it made philosophical religion look, to some at least, reprehensibly theoretical and 'cold'.

This suggests that there would be little plausibility to a suggestion to the effect that the remit of the philosophical man of letters, as understood by Hume, was to work towards the demise of the Christian religion.

A grim pattern is visible in history: When religion is the ruling force in a society, it produces horror. The stronger the supernatural beliefs, the worse the inhumanity. A culture dominated by intense faith invariably is cruel to people who don't share the faith--and sometimes to many who do.

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, "I and my Father are One

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

La introducción en un campo de conocimiento es más un adoctrinamiento que un estímulo del pensamiento crítico-científico. El tiempo de aprendizaje —en la ciencia tanto como en la industria, el arte o la religión— se caracteriza por una «sugestión de ideas puramente autoritaria».

Si tratta delle pagine iniziali della primissima edizione de Il senso religioso, pubblicata nel 1958 con l'imprimatur della Curia di Milano e stampata dalla Presidenza Diocesana Milanese della Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica. Del libro uscirono nuove edizioni, rivedute e ampliate, nel 1968, nel 1986 e nel 1997 (Rizzoli).

Invece, questo desiderio di egemonia, la speranza posta nell'egemonia non è la speranza posta in Cristo!

My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.

Padre,' Tomás replied, 'my only confession is that I do not believe in confession.

The People crossed themselves. They knew a Jesus reference when they heard it.