Quotes About Religion

Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.

My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.

I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday, and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

most kids who grow up and leave church did not run away from caring relationships. They ran away from prejudice judgment irrelevance and religion.

I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.

I've got no bone to pick with science, but first off I'm a man of faith. If you're using science to put limits on what God can accomplish with a person, that's where we part ways.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

It has been said that if a little learning withdraws a person from religion, great learning brings him back to it.956

The heathen in his blindnessBows down to wood and stone.

How come you still go on about your religion even after you gave it up?'...'It would be truer to say it gave me up, or rather it directed me to another path. But I still need it to tell me who I am. What about you Sam? Perhaps you are one of the lucky ones who are so sure who they are that external help isn't necessary.

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.

The church has lost the chance of becoming the unifying element in our American society. It is not anticipating any facts. It is merely catching up very slowly to the new social facts created by economic and other forces. The American melting pot is doing its work. The churches merely represent various European cultures, lost in the amalgam of American life and maintaining a separate existence only in religion.

Religion is a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people.

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

It is a communion at once mystic & real, in the guise of metal. Money which is liberty, is also fecundation. It is the universal sperm without which human societies would remain but barren wombs. Paganism, which knew & understood everything, opens to a shower of gold from on high the conquered thighs of Danae. That is what we should see on our coins, instead of a meaningless head, if we were capable of contemplating without embarrassment that religious tableau.

It is thus quite certain that the constitution of the true religion, the ordinances of which are derived from God, must be incomparably superior to that of every other.