Quotes About Religion

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

How does a religious employer's decision not to offer health plans with abortion coverage dictate to anyone what to do with her own body?

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this?

Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned from it.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.

A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

I grew up going to Catholic school and I was altar boy even going back to the days where the altar boys had to learn the Latin clergy for mass.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

The closest thing to religion our family had was worshipping The Beatles.