Quotes About Religion

No wonder religious fundamentalism and extreme right-wing nationalism simultaneously reappear.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Religion has everything on its side: revelation, prophecies, government protection, the highest dignity and eminence ... and more than this, the invaluable prerogative of being allowed to imprint its doctrines on the mind at a tender age of childhood, whereby they become almost innate ideas.

I don't let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that's offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don't have anything better to offer him in a way.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

People are often surprised to hear that Romani is in fact a fully fledged language just like any other, that it has its origins in India, that it is related to Sanskrit, an ancient language associated with Indian scholarship and religion, and that it has been preserved by the Romani populations through oral traditions and in a variety of dialects for many centuries.

In the eyes of Popes and Imams we are Us and Them, but in the eyes of the Lord we are one.

les hommes n'ont inventé dieu que pour distraire leur démons

The poet was right: there was inevitably a share for the Devil in every religion that God offered man; a tiny share, but largely sufficient to falsify the Message and leave the unwary astray down the path of evil and barbarism. That Devil's share is ignorance.

los miembros de cada religión están convencidos de que su religión es la verdadera y todas las otras son falsas! Esta convicción conduce a los miembros de algunas religiones a tratar de convencer a otras personas a que compartan su teología.

Si no crees en mi Dios de amor y justicia, te mato!

As integral as religion was to his sense of self, it was not until he reached West Point and combined his spiritual discipline with Blaik's military discipline that his coaching persona began to take its mature form. Everything he knew about organizing a team and preparing it to play its best, Lombardi said later, he learned at West Point. "It all came from Red Blaik.

the Y.M.C.A. had a deeper motive than mere social service. Its three-fold emphasis of Body, Mind, and Spirit was centered on bringing men to a personal faith in Jesus Christ.

Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.

My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

Until now we've discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you'll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just "us and "them", and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

amounting to .2 percent of the world's population. Although Jews have been around for thousands of years, they have the same number of members as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), which was founded in the nineteenth century. Their survival may well be impressive, but the fact that they have so few members

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

It is a loop between church, Spirit, and Bible, and it is enough.

It may not be quite enough to find a nice inclusive Episcopal church led by Progressive White Cleric to replace the lily-white rocking megachurch led by Conservative White Guy in Jeans on Stage.