Quotes About Religion

Your Christian god of mercy gives men licence to pursue their greed, their lust for land and blood, knowing a few prayers and a little penance will bring forgiveness and blessing.

Religion exists to instill false security and blind faith

But I didn't put it back on after the Porters. It isn't a crisis of faith. I'm not sure I ever had faith, not the way Mom does. Mine is more like Dad's - I believe there is a God, and I believe in honoring Him, but I'm not sure how much of a role He plays in our lives, and I don't blame Him for that, because it's up to us, isn't it? It's up to us to say we'll be a good person because that's what we believe is right, not because it'll earn us a better place in the next life.

The false-faced angel of light always comes wrapped up in the Word of God.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God.

Ha creído que, al servicio de Dios, el fin justifica los medios.

People know the difference between right and wrong—and if they don't, that's what priests are for.

No matter how long she argued, people would believe the priests, not

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.

Yo creo en Dios, pero no creo que a Él le importe que la gente sea protestante, católica, musulmana o budista.

She could have had an affair with him. He was a devout Muslim, as were all the guerrillas, but she doubted whether that would have made any difference. She believed what her father had used to say: Religious conviction may thwart a timid desire but nothing can stand against genuine lust.

Carla no creía en Dios —ninguna entidad sagrada digna de tal nombre habría permitido que llegaran a existir los campos de exterminio nazis—

El general rebelde, Franco, había conseguido el respaldo de la Iglesia católica.

there are more Muslims than Christians in the world. So somebody's church is wrong.

We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

llamados «canónigos»

The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel.

Por desgracia, Jesús se aparecía a los chicos con imaginaciones febriles, no a hombres sobrios y racionales.

The fact that it was a woman who brought our Lord into the world.

No sentía simpatía por los profesionales de Dios

Todos toman lo que les conviene de las enseñanzas de la Iglesia y dejan de lado aquello que no se adapta a su forma de vida.

he had hated authoritarian religion

El fundador de la religión cristiana también causó bastantes problemas.