Quotes About Religion

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.

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.

Pagodas are, like mosques, true houses of prayer; ?Tis prayer that church bells waft upon the air; Kaaba and temple, rosary and cross, All are but divers tongues of world-wide prayer.

With regards to the methods of attaining the essence of religion, there are generally two types as described by Imazu Kogaku:1 the meditation type and the prayer type.

What we call the source of human personality—the True Self—is said to be this kind of eternal existence, yet it does not exist outside the living body. The realization of this fact is the essence of the meditation type of religion. At the same time, it is the way of human self-realization in Rinzai Zen.

It is a peculiar characteristic of monotheistic religions that they desire to FORCE their ONE GOOD IDEA onto others

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

If you speak your mind on the Vatican, on the Catholic Church, on the Pope, on the Virgin Mary or Jesus or the saints, nobody touches your 'right of thought and expression.' But if you do the same with Islam, the Koran, the Prophet Muhammad, some son of Allah, you are called a xenophobic blasphemer who has committed an act of racial discrimination.

Speaking of racism in relation to a religion, not a race, is a big disservice to the language and to the intelligence.

questa inetta Unione Europea che coi suoi quindici e c'è chi dice venti milioni di mussulmani ci sta trasformando in una provincia dell'Islam, non è l'Europa. È il suicidio dell'Europa.

Though I hear witchery referred to as a religion by the modern movement, this is not how the traditional witches originally described it to me. They described it more as a philosophy, a way of life, and even a set of techniques to make visible changes through working invisible means and by direct encounter and exchange.

They felt that perhaps religion had lost many of its original virtues and people would become more and more called to paths such as witchery because they sought a direct relationship with spirit that invited self-exploration and self-creation.

Religion explains how it is possible to relate to the dead who still live. It says little about how ordinary people should relate to the living who are dead.

Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.