Quotes About Religion

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

I am a believer and a conformist.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

I don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

I had a multicultural exposure; that's why I don't believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don't judge people by that, and I feel extremely offended when people categorise based on race, religion, or gender.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

The key to Judaism's survival is the emotional attachment to the religion.

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

I suspect I have a relationship with my religion which will seem slightly weird to people who don't understand me.

We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.

Would a President Hillary Clinton and her liberal allies suspend the tax-exempt status of churches deemed 'not friendly' to her administration? It is within the realm of possibility considering their hateful beliefs.

All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate who was 'enthusiastic' about religion attracted censure and suspicion.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.