Quotes About Religion

When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

The only way to revive Temple worship is through repentance. The men of Judah must give up their idolatry and turn their hearts back to God.

No, Missy. Ain't nothing wrong with being afraid—that's only human. But we need to give our fear to Massa Jesus instead of letting our imaginations run off with it.

Often he says that practicing Buddhism is unnecessary. Everyone can find the keys to a purposeful and moral life within their own culture and religious framework.

religion as a bridge to truth rather than a set of strictures—remained

One of his most remarkable reforms is to state unequivocally that religion should not oppose itself to science. "Where Buddhist teachings contradict science, science should prevail," he has said.

Judaeo-Christian legacy informs the way that even most materialist sceptic thinks and behaves. Whether we like it or not, that legacy has built the history that spawned us, and shaped the attitudes that linger, often unpleasantly, in the dark recesses of our minds.

Abbey of Cluny

The Church was the greatest landholder in existence; in the Carolingian period one third of all Gaul belonged to the Church

God, I want you,' he breathed, and Bernadette's throat closed, trapping her breath, while every last ounce of strength drained out of her and left her with knees turned suddenly to rubber. 'I've never said that to a nun before,' he mused wryly. 'But then I've never met a nun like you. I doubt anyone has. What business has a woman Like you got being a nun, for the love of God!

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect," Madison told Bradford, writing with the authority of a man who knew firsthand the price of being bound to a received viewpoint—and the liberation of breaking free.

The custom of confession seemed designed to encourage sin by granting ready forgiveness. Neither Abigail nor any member of her family ever wavered in their preference for life in America over life in Europe. In France they lived far grander style than they ever lived in Braintree. ...her unshakable belief was that America was superior to Europe - superiority based on simplicity, its supposed lack of extreme wealth and class distinctions, its religion and its emphasis on family

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

Without justice, a society cannot be Islamic regardless of its label. It i that simple

generally treating free-market capitalism as a kind of state religion.

Muslims of British India had opted for a separate homeland in 1947, destroying the possibility of a secular India in which Hindus and Muslims would coexist, because they believed that they would be physically safe, and their religion secure, in a new nation called Pakistan. Instead, within six decades, Pakistan had become one of the most violent nations on earth, not because Hindus were killing Muslims but because Muslims were killing Muslims.

Death to the bourgeois on his knees, smelling of religion and not believing in God!

Zo is god, de god van de Heidelbergse Catechismus, de god die mensen zo intens haat dat hij keelkanker voor ze heeft uitgevonden. Zelfs mensen zijn niet in staat elkaar op zo'n laaghartige wijze te vermoorden als god kan met behulp van deze ziekte. Ook al huil ik [..] toch ben ik blij dat ik twee van zijn dienstknechten heb kunnen aftuigen.

O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

Deus, para a felicidade do homem, inventou a fé e o amor. O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

Man is at his most stubborn when his religious, socioeconomic, or political beliefs need change.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Religion is induced insanity.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.