Quotes About Religion

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

worship the same gods. They do not even

No es de extrañar esa conexión cristiana con Egipto: ¿acaso alguien todavía ignora que Jesús pasó parte de su infancia en Egipto, cuando sus padres huyeron de Herodes? (Mt., 2, 13-18), ¿o que la imagen de la Virgen sosteniendo al niño en su regazo ya aparecía miles de años atrás en representaciones egipcias, siendo Isis la que sostenía a su hijo Horus en la misma postura? La conexión existe. Y es indudable.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul.

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.

In this materialistic age of ours,' says Professor Albert Einstein, 'the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.'15 In

And the famous invocation is for light and understanding: 'Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality.'… There is no humility about this quest, the humility before an all-powerful deity, so often associated with religion. In a morning prayer, the sun is addressed thus: 'O sun of refulgent glory, I am the same person as makes thee what thou art.' What a superb self-confidence!

Philosophy is a dangerous thing for any dogmatic religion; it makes people think.

The options given to them are the same options that one faces now. They reflect two distinct moralities, two antithetical religions, and two discrete manners of life. The one says: "I shall live according to feeling"; the other: "I shall live as God says.

A goddess is the sum of all her believers, all the prayers and hopes and curses and despair ever uttered in her name.

For me, religion comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.

Religion is for people afraid of going to hell, Spirituality is for people who have been there.

Jesus had upset the temporal authorities, and political consequences would surely follow.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

If Landon took the high road, Gerald L. K. Smith, Father Coughlin, and the Union party took the low. Alarmed at Lemke's failure to gain traction, Union party rhetoric escalated to a level of vituperation seldom seen in American public life. "I'll teach them how to hate," Smith boasted. "Religion and patriotism, keep going on that. It's the only way you can get them really 'het up.'

Bush saw issues in terms of black and white. There were no subtleties and no shades of gray. The war in Iraq was a biblical struggle of good versus evil—something from the pages of the Book of Revelation. His decision to bring democracy to Iraq was equally arbitrary and unilateral. Bush's religious fundamentalism often obscured reality. And he expected his cabinet to fall into line, not debate possible alternatives.

But," she said to the priest, "I'm not dead yet. I've heard the angels farting on the ceiling.

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said" - Jean Genet, Jean Genet in Tangier

Personally, I believe the Koran is more trustworthy than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, he said

I think the Moslems have gone beyond the ethic and traditions of the Koran. But in spite of that, the Koran is still a great book, one that's read by Moslems and non-Moslems alike.

Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.