Quotes About Religion

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

Our cultural roots are the most ancient in the world. The spiritual concepts of our Ancestors gave birth to religious thought African people believe in the oneness of the African family through sacred time, which unites the past, the present and the future. Our Ancestors live with us.

On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.

I hear Mrs. Roble say, "You know, I've seen this happen before with the Muslim kids. I push those girls—they're so bright. Then one day they come in with a head scarf, and they say their marriage has been arranged and they're not going to college after all.

Although I had long since stopped regarding myself as a Christian, I still thought of Christians as being basically decent, tolerant easy-going types like myself, while Muslims I'd always thought of as, well, let's say a bit prone to fundamentalism.

No, it's the same people who are always in power, Vera. Sometimes they call themselves communists, sometimes capitalists, sometimes devoutly religious—whatever they need to be to hang on to power. The former communists in Russia are the same people who own all the industries now. They're the real rip-off merchants. But the professional middle classes, people like Valentina's husband, have been hardest hit.

Es importante recordar que el hemisferio cerebral que procesa los sonidos de la naturaleza es el derecho. Si nos damos cuenta, toda la ciencia actual, sobre todo a partir de Newton, se basa en esta percepción: existimos nosotros y existe un universo externo a nosotros. Esta misma separación afectó profundamente a las religiones al considerar que estábamos nosotros por una parte y allí a lo lejos habitaba un Dios o una serie de dioses.

Qué cosa aburrida debe ser el pecar cuando se es ateo!

Pero, hermanita. Dios es una mera creación del hombre. Un invento si se quiere prestigioso

Son raras las veces que pienso en Dios. Sin embargo, tengo un fondo religioso, un ansia de religión. Quisiera convencerme de que efectivamente poseo una definición de Dios, un concepto de Dios. Pero no poseo nada semejante. Son raras las veces en que pienso en Dios, sencillamente porque el problema me excede tan sobrada y soberanamente, que llega a provocarme una especie de pánico, una desbandada general de mi lucidez y de mis razones.

Yo vivía relativamente cómodo, acaso porque no se me había ocurrido creer en Dios.

No puedo figurarme a Dios como una gran sociedad anónima.

I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be…religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell." —WILLIAM BOOTH, founder of The Salvation Army

Markaz Dirasat al-Adab al-'Arabii wa-Dar al-Huda 2001; 16al-Suyuti, al-Rasa'il al-'ashar, Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al- 'Ilmiya, 1409 AH/1989 CE, p. 54; 'Ali ibn Taj al-Din al-Sinjari, al-karam fii akhbar Makka wa'l-bayt wa-wulat

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

My father says that believing or not believing doesn't matter; what is important is speaking with God.

Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of 'em. There's a good to all of 'em and there's a bad.

I was brought up in a Christian environment where, because God had to be given pre-eminence, nothing else was allowed to be important. I have broken through to the position that because God exists, everything has significance."360

In all of these ways, Wesley promoted a religious faith that resembled the forms of the Enlightenment, even though his purpose in doing so was Christian in a way that many proponents of the Enlightenment had abandoned.[115]

In i86o the income of the nation's churches and religious voluntary societies came quite close to matching the total receipts of the federal government. Today the ratio of annual federal income to annual religion-related giving is about twenty-five to one.

The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860