Quotes About Religion

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

The main idea in the region of religion is—Your eyes upon God, not on men. Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door and talk to God in secret. Have no other motive than to know your Father in heaven. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer:

To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught

Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious, because there is only one master of the human heart—Jesus Christ, not religion.

É preciso partir de um profundo ateísmo para se chegar à ideia de Deus.

Every soul has religion, which is only another word for its existence. All living forms in which it expresses itself—all arts, doctrines, customs, all metaphysical and mathematical form-worlds, all ornament, every column and verse and idea—are ultimately religious, and must be so.

psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas

A man who has faith is somebody who can be saved.

It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law.

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension. --"Wanda

In most societies, organized religion provides a culturally acceptable framework for rationalizing the continuance of magical thinking.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Nuns freak me out.

Ilumínate más, ciudad maldita. Ilumina tus puertas y ventanas Ilumínate más, luz necesita el partido sin luz de las sotanas.

Only Diety Except ALLAH.

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides, Palladas, Voltaire and Professor Housman will denounce him. With Buddhism, Taoism, Quietism, and the God of Spinoza there can be no disappointment, because there is no Appointment.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

I have nothing against God. It's his fan club to which I take exception.

Look through the Bible and nowhere does Jesus say, "Worship me." His call to us was "follow me." There's a big difference.

I believe—like religion—that the glimmer, the metaphor, if you will, knows a great deal more than I do. And if I stay out of its way, it will reveal itself to me. I will become not so much its keeper as its conduit, and I will pass its wisdom on to the reader, without actually getting in its way" (79).

made the fact that we were Jews undeniable.