Quotes About Religion

People cannot live without God; life becomes unbearable.

Las mutaciones metafísicas –es decir, las transiciones radicales y globales de la visión del mundo adoptada por la mayoría– son raras en la historia de la humanidad. Como ejemplo, se puede citar la aparición del cristianismo.

Je sais bien que les faits semblent me contredire, je sais bien que l'islam - de loin la plus bête, la plus fausse et la plus obscurantiste de toutes les religions - semble actuellement gagner du terrain; mais ce n'est qu'un phénomène superficiel et transitoire: à long terme l'islam est condamné, encore plus sûrement que le christianisme.

nunca, en ningún momento de la historia humana, había existido una religión que ganara influencia sobre las masas dirigiéndose únicamente a la razón.

It's almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!

God will endure for as long as the reasons that brought him into being; And so will those who deny him.

A morte de Deus é menos importante do que a destruição do que durante tanto tempo o tornou possível.

Every theocracy is a denial of democracy. Even better: the smallest hint of theocracy neutralizes the very essence of democracy.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. C. S. Lewis

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

Along with our shared love of pets, gardens, and food, we considered our degree of religious commitment—his to Judaism, mine to Unitarian Universalism—a common value. While dating, we'd sporadically attended each other's worship services; perhaps we both nursed secret hopes of enticing the other over to our side.

You know, I always think about going back to college. Just to catch up on all those books that supposedly shape our lives but nobody ever reads." "Yeah? Like what?" . . . "Well, there's the Bible. You ever read it?" "Parts," said Lewis. "Well, this whole wrecked civilization is based on a book most people have only read parts of.

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

Three weeks after New Year, she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to redeem the sins of others was as irrational as tapping a hole in one's eggshell to stop a witch using it as a boat.

This is what your faith means, she told Miss Broadstairs silently. You can dress it up with cherubs if you wish, but the man who painted this picture was rather more honest. He knew that it all boils down to a threat to keep people in line. That sketchy promise of Heaven if you do what you're told - and the certainty of endless torture if you don't. Take that, peasant. Now back to the fields and don't even think about improving your lot.

But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn't have cared about bringing it to an end. I

This is what your faith means, she told Miss Broadstairs silently. You can dress it up with cherubs if you wish, but the man who painted this picture was rather more honest. He knew that it all boils down to a threat to keep people in line. That sketchy promise of Heaven if you do what you're told – and the certainty of endless torture if you don't. Take that, peasants. Now back to the fields and don't even think about improving your lot.

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

The only way to God is through Jesus.

People who aren't full of the love of Christ love strife and salacious news;

After the day's active life, we spend at least a few hours quietly to develop our aesthetic, theoretical, and spiritual understanding of the way of life. By either reading, writing, performing, or thinking and meditating, we should continuously refine our personality and deepen our understanding of art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, and various other arts.

The puzzle for psychology is how people maintain views of the world that are contrary to the evidence. Why, for example, is the USA both a powerhouse of science and scientific discovery, while at the same time it demonstrates a rapid growth in fundamentalist religious sects that deny or distort the very evidence that science presents?

Neither Buddha built a Buddhist temple nor did Christ build a Catholic church, but these humans in their name have left the spirituality seekers in the lurch. No religious organizations have ever delivered God to humans, yes an idea of God may have been made available. The divinity has to be self realized, stop searching in temples, look within and get MickeyMized.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.