Quotes About Religion

Por costumbre, todo cuanto fuera contra la Iglesia quedaba más o menos alejado de mi vida y de la vida de todos los religiosos y religiosas. No es que no pudiéramos saber —que podíamos—, es que no queríamos; a priori, no nos gustaba escuchar este tipo de acusaciones y hacíamos oídos más o menos sordos a los escándalos anticlericales.

I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

Suddenly it made me realize why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So if they believed in themselves--the logic must go-- why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion.

Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.

People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?

Therefore, mathematically...there was no chance at all that [she] could have existed. A zero in ten-to-the-power-of-forever chance. And yet there she was, in front of me, and I was quite taken aback by it all; I really was. Suddenly it made me realise why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

Even before I had fully discovered the concepts of astrology, homeopathy, organised religion and probiotic yoghurts I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility.

Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.

If I was religious, I'd say it was God. And as God is probably someone we can't see or comprehend then He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is – becomes an image of someone good we have known in our lives.

Catolicismul, am aflat, era o forma de crestinism pentru umanii carora le placeau poleiala cu foita de aur, limba latina si sentimentul de vina.

el catolicismo es un tipo de cristianismo para humanos a los que les gusta el pan de oro, el latín y la culpa.

Hugo shrugged. 'If I was religious, I'd say it was God. And as God is probably someone we can't see or comprehend then He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is

Christianity   The human's most popular religion, partly because it gave its followers stories about people who had babies without sex, and who died without dying. It also made sure, via the bible, that there were enough possible interpretations to satisfy every human belief and prejudice.

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

You'd be a better Christian if you learned how to read, Ruby had told him. Cain's mark was a protection; if the mark was his skin color, then God must have turned him white, not black.

Biblical literalism is for the simple.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

For people who undergo religious conversions, individuality is replaced by ideology, and very little room is left for personal growth or expression.

Words originated, as did the concept of God, with our species.

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

The State is of the religion of all its citizens without the fanaticism of any of them.