Quotes About Religion

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ the Son of God is entirely a matter of revelation.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.