Quotes About Religion

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

I definitely believe in a higher power.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.

Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.