Quotes About Religion

Men i Herrens sted plasserte han seg selv. Og det var den verste formen for læstadianisme, den kaldeste, den mest nådeløse. Læstadianismen uten Gud.

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly." —Luke 11:28–30 msg

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.

Dog: A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship." AMBROSE BIERCE (1842

Religion needs spirituality. Spirituality does not need religion.

Of course there is a God, just not like the one taught by the blind who lead the blind.

Eventually, religion began making up dots where no dots had ever existed.

Religion gives us forms and shapes for God to fit into, but He constantly proves to be bigger, wider, and deeper than our boxes. Just when we think we've figured out where God is going next, the wind blows somewhere else.

As a full-time paid religious person, I understand the desire to restrict God's work to only those who are formally recognized by our religious institutions. But He's too unpredictable for that.

Actins, practices, and resources that are sometimes part of pursuing genuine faith are not bad things in themselves. In fact, I believe genuine faith leads to changes in outward behavior... But when the externals become substitutes for the real thing--an authentic relationship with God--they have fallen to the level of empty religion.

Jesus's summary of the whole law is simply this: love God and love each other. Focusing on externals will never make that happen. Religion can help us act lovingly, but it can't turn us into loving people. Only the power of God can do that.

Many of us are religious precisely to keep us from trusting God. We go to church, we give money, and we do all the right things--in the hope that God will never puts us in a position where we actually have to trust him.

Why do they call it the Catholic Church? Because if they called it the Pedophiles Club, nobody would join.

Among modern idols the worst is the homeland Its robe is the shroud of religion

Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Although it is undoubtedly true man was created by God; it is just as true that man was "made" by Satan." The Milkweed Prophesy; Epitaph of the Apocalypse