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Quotes About Religion

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.
~ Woody Allen
People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
~ Bill Hicks
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.
~ Saint Augustine
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
~ Martin Luther
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
~ John Keats
Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission...its masterpiece is, to reunite them.
~ Alexandre Vinet
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
~ Unknown
There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion, but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.
~ Toba Beta
Meditation is not a religion. Mindfulness is simply a method of mental training.
~ Mark Williams
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
~ Marlene Dietrich
I don't believe in belief.
~ Marlon James
Seem that if baby get left in manger he would scratch up, bite up and dead by the third day. But white people think this be the greatest thing. The baby grow up and they kill him, and white people think this be even greater. It make plenty sense that white people would get so much mirth and joy out of this 'cause nobody kill for fun like backra.
~ Marlon James
They never grow less stupid, men who believe in belief.
~ Marlon James
Our emotions are meant to draw us toward God, not away from Him.
~ Unknown
King abhorred slavery. But he struggled over how to fight it while remaining true to the religious pacifism he had inherited from his grandmother.
~ Unknown
She thought accepting religious maxims meant abdicating independence and not personally struggling with profound questions. It was like learning chemistry by a book rather than an experiment.
~ Unknown
There's more God in one hurt child than in all the religions humans ever created.
~ Martha Beck
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
~ Martin Amis
It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.
~ Martin Amis
The Bible warns about religious transformations that may appear good and therefore deceive many: 'For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.' (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)
~ Unknown