Quotes About Religion

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word — faith.

Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.

In religion I do not see the mystery of the Incarnation, but the mystery of the social order. It associates with Heaven an idea of equality that keeps rich men from being massacred by the poor…Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

I saw myself founding a religion, marching into Asia riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

If I had to have a religion, I should adore the sun, for it is the sun that fertilizes everything.

All religions have been made by men.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Sounds pretty bad. Are you sure about this?" "Oh, I'm sure." "Well, I don't know what we can do to prepare, except say our prayers." "Good luck with that, Herb. God died in 1945.

This year I have Sister Mary Joseph for Religion. Right away I could tell she was going to become my archenemy. She has a stony face with a mean squint; Clint Eastwood in a wimple. She trained the squint on me and decided I was trouble from the get-go.

Superstition and religion tell me that God responds to me. God is powerful, to be sure, but I am the real center of the universe, because God's actions are predicated upon mine. Religion and superstition say that I can make God dance by being good, and that by being bad I can force him from the floor.

Racism might be the most common atheism among Christians today.

I love being a Seventh-day Adventist. I chose it . . . on purpose. And I love what my church teaches about God.

They went off to the Holy Land and went from Orthodox to ultra-Orthodox, which to me sounds like a repackaged detergent–ORTHODOX ULTRA®, now with more deep-healing power.