Quotes About Religion

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.

I think Barack Obama thinks that Muslims are the ones being persecuted, and he has to change that. The fact is he is contributing to Christians being persecuted, not only around the world, but in America as well.

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

To restore religion, gentlemen, it is necessary to condemn the Church.

Society was saved by the negation of its own principles, by a revolution in its religion, and by violation of its most sacred rights. In this revolution, the idea of justice spread to an extent that had not before been dreamed of, never to return to its original limits. Heretofore justice had existed only for the masters; it then commenced to exist for the slaves.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Numa forbade the Romans to revere an image of God which had the form of man or beast. Nor was there among them in this earlier time any painted or graven likeness of Deity, 8 but while for the first hundred and seventy years they were continually building temples and establishing sacred shrines, they made no statues in bodily form for them, convinced that it was impious to liken higher things to lower, and that it was impossible to apprehend Deity except by the intellect.

I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

At a first glance, medical psychology seems to have nothing to do with religion. But at its depth it provides a new, though at the same time primordial, perspective on what should be the subject matter of religion. It is both a criticism and an approval of religion. It is in and through the soul that problems of the world reveal themselves as world problems.

To be mortal means to die, and both Eve and Pandora bring death into the world. This is a curious rerversal of the fact that women bring life into the world, but it says something about the meaning of 'woman' within a religion dominated by male gods.

We are still too much a part of the story of what is happening to religious consciousness to assess its meaning.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture.

The word buddha, however, simply means "awake" or "awakened." It does not refer to a particular historical person or to a philosophy or religion.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.