Quotes About Religion

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

I felt like I was growing up with two different churches, in a sense. And that's always stayed with me - not just the religion of it - but the day-to-day understanding that these beliefs, that faith itself, is something that I need as something to sustain me.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

I consider myself a Christian. I attend church. My faith has sustained me in very difficult times.

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way.

My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it's not so formal. We made our peace with that.

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.

I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

The thing I found when I was actually reading through the Quran is that Christianity - that is a very easy switch to make to lead a Muslim to Christ.

I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.

Eating matzo ball soup for the first time was akin to a religious experience because of how deeply contemplative it was. It made me realise that something as simple as chicken soup - in any culture or religion, or through any perspective - can be very symbolic, nourishing and meaningful.