Quotes About Religion

But there was an unfortunate complication, namely that her mother and father were Christians, and not the Jesus-is-love kind of Christians but the Hell-has-a-special-room-waiting-for-you kind.

iGen'ers are more likely than any generation before them to be raised by religiously unaffiliated parents.

only 28% of 12th graders in 2015 attended services once a week, down from 40% in 1976.

Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious landscape is now more polarized based on identity.

Just as iGen'ers and Millennials are avoiding institutions such as religion and marriage, more and more of them are refusing to identify with the major political parties.

Kinnaman found that 36% of young adults with a Christian background said that they didn't feel they could "ask my most pressing life questions in church.

He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

there is no word in Hebrew for "goddess," so the word cannot appear in the Old Testament.

Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society benefit directly from individual virtue, and therefore have incentive to promote it? Did our concepts of goodness have their foundations in religious and spiritual practice? What about the notion that money was the root of all evil, and those monks and nuns who felt it necessary to deny themselves material wealth?

The way people are for ever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, 'Perhaps it's all for the best,' when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!

Que le verbe se fasse chair est décidément la seule chose qui m'intéresse. Le mystère de l'incarnation n'est pas à mes yeux une affaire de religion mais d'esthétique.

What sort of men?" "They don't believe in God, but they have just as much faith in humanity as we do.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

I shall always maintain that whoso says in his heart, "There is no God," while he takes the name of God upon his lips, is either a liar or a madman.

avec ses lourdes pertes humaines, est de toutes les civilisations et de tous les temps. Les religions elles-mêmes sont souvent à l'origine de ces tueries que pourtant elles dénoncent, comme il en fut jadis au temps des croisades et des guerres de Religion, voire, aujourd'hui, de l'islamisme extrême. C'est qu'entre-temps les hommes, poussés par l'immémorial instinct de pouvoir, se sont approprié le fait religieux et en ont fait leur affaire. Au

trop fameux Gott mit uns, aujourd'hui repris par George Bush dans le cadre de sa lutte contre l'« axe du Mal », l'homme justifie ses intentions belliqueuses en utilisant la religion à ses propres fins, et n'hésite pas à déclarer la guerre en son nom. Une pratique mal décelée dans le bouddhisme, encore que ce soit en terre bouddhique que se sera perpétrée, on l'a dit, la folle aventure génocidaire de Pol Pot. Une

Encore faut-il se garder de crier trop tôt victoire lorsqu'on voit la volonté de certains mouvements évangéliques américains d'en découdre à tout prix avec l'islam… Pas tout à fait morte encore l'idée médiévale de la croisade !

le fait religieux peut être analysé comme un antidote à la violence. La nouveauté de la pensée de cet auteur lui a valu de devoir se réfugier, comme d'autres spécialistes français des sciences humaines – Paul Ricœur et Michel Serres, par exemple – aux États-Unis pour poursuivre ses recherches, ces sciences étant alors en France exclusivement construites autour du marxisme, du freudisme et du structuralisme.

I do not worship their devil. Nor do I worship their other gods--Jesus, Jehovah, the Holy Spirit--but I respect them, for all gods are One. I worship the Great Mother, the one many call Diana, whose secret name the inquisitors shall never know. If this makes me a witch by their definition--very well then, I am a witch, just as surely as they are Christians and murderers.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.