Quotes About Religion

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

My pope is Benedict.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

No pope ever condemned slavery.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

The population of Hindus is 100 crore. So obviously India is a Hindu Rashtra.

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it's known for religious stories, it's known a bit for agriculture, but... neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.

We have a diverse population and have to maintain that and keep religion away from politics.

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

When I portrayed Shiridi Sai, I changed as a person.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.

If you see anything, you see I post a lot of Scriptures.

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.