Quotes About Religion

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.