Quotes About Religion

Might there come a time when people of different faiths did not kill one another?

If she had believed in God, she would have prayed.

The cross identified him as a Catholic: Protestants believed it was superstitious to wear one.

La convicción religiosa puede destruir un tímido deseo, pero nada puede obstaculizar una pasión genuina.»

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One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was John's mama used to make the whole family get down on their knees and pray like fury everytime John's daddy--Henry's first cousin, I believe--would come home boozed, and John never quite got it straight that they weren't thanking the good Lord for his blessing same as they did at the supper table. So according to Henry booze come to be sort of holy to him and with faith like that John grew up religious as a deacon.

There is a phrase for this that has become quite common: "I'm spiritual but not religious." Polls show that some 20 percent of Americans identify overall with that phrase. And some polls have shown that, in the younger generation—those between eighteen and twenty-nine—this percentage explodes to an astonishing 75 percent!2 In other words, three out of four young individuals have a deep spiritual yearning that no existing religion is addressing.

In the United States, for example, almost 60 percent of the population today is "churched"—hence likely at a Mythic or lower level (correlatively, Robert Kegan, in In Over Our Heads, estimates that 3 out of 5 Americans, 60 percent, are at Mythic or lower)—whereas in northern Europe, only 11 percent are churched. But the leading edge, in any event, and the mainstream cultural background philosophy, is Rational/Pluralistic, and NO GOD is its credo.

I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

...I deeply believe that there is a power greater than ours that's helping us in our fight.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

Man made God in his own image.

The power of Christ compels you!

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.