Quotes About Religion

There are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity •

The happiness equation, it seems, is to be stupid, unconscious, and a slave to God. Then God will love you and everything will be perfect. It's amazing how many people love that equation. It's basically the equation that rules the lives of dogs! If you want to keep your freedom then you must kill God! That's the only way. God must die so that God may live – the new God. To repeat, God is dead, long live the new God.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Day after day, for more than seven weeks, the audience heard lurid stories of wild sex, biblical rantings, beaten babies, and armed fanatics ready to fight and die for their crazy notions of heaven and hell at the command of a madman.

Sadly, the now-accepted, international church forgot that it, too, was once considered a mere cult.

I knew I would never be able to explain myself in the language of faith, a tongue I was still fumbling with.

Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side.

When they write the sequel to the Bible, that shit is definitely gonna be in there.

Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

But if you come to define success, in both business and in life, as philosophers and religions have for millennia, by the satisfaction derived from work itself and not the degree of attention you receive for it, people like Johns and Canby—the Invisibles—offer a model you would do well to follow. Ask yourself: Do I want to be on a treadmill of competition with others, or do I want to find lasting reward by challenging myself?

Miz Cooper says don't pay her no mind because she is most likely one of them Duck River Baptists and probably a Republican ...

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me. George Foreman

These forced migrants were also promised freedom of religion, and were permitted to construct their own houses of worship. News of this decree spread widely along the frontier zones and in Europe as the Ottomans advertised—also in European newspapers—for immigrant families wishing to settle as farmers in the Levant.

Am I a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, or a Jew? I do not know . . . for Truth has set fire to these words.

if history is told correctly, no man has caused the worldwide stir that Jesus Christ did 2000 years ago... Jesus was the non-conformist of all time. He took the conventions of religion, tradition, and love and turned them upside down. He faced the political and religious leaders of His day and spoke truths they had never heard before. He walked in our world as the human voice of God.

I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.

Atheists are a great example of the Free Will they choose to deny the existence of

I've yet to hear of a deathbed conversion to atheism

It is more acceptable to talk about the evils of cults than it is to talk about the evils of culture

Very rarely to do you hear of death bed conversions to atheism

For all their piety- they prayed regularly and devoutly, as their religion required - Riley wondered how the Arabs could ignore the fact that under their care he and his men lacked the most basic necessities of life and suffered inhumanly.

Even if you can't open your heart to people, open your heart to God; then you will know how to open your heart to people also.

God was seldom discussed in our family except in a very distant sort of way, rather like our cousins in Canada.