Quotes About Religion

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founders' than any other agency in the world.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

I've become leery of religious advocacy for laws which only value a 'life' until it's born.

religion also teaches kindness, personal responsibility, and the grace not to judge people by the worst moments in their lives.

My parents haven't reached out to me once. They're religious but not godly.

I was raised Catholic. I went to church every Sunday with my family, then came home and got beaten up by my old man. He beat God right out of me.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. but many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

For example, the Cha Cha—that's straight out of Haitian and Cuban voodooism, chacha being the name of a rattle used in voodoo ceremonies. Or mambo—the voodoo word for a priestess of the supernatural religion.

That age of the church which was most fertile in subtle questions was most barren in religion; for it makes people think religion to be only a matter of cleverness, in tying and untying of knots.

Love, for you is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying.

You said I could have anything I wanted, but I just couldn't say it out loud. Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.

Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said.

Trump's election was also an enormous challenge to American public diplomacy and to the American brand. So much of what we believed and promoted as part of the American Brand --free speech, freedom of religion, the power of diversity, equality before the law, a level playing field -- was challenged by brand Trump.

theological aesthetics will consider God, religion, and theology in relation to sensible knowledge (sensation, imagination, and feeling), the beautiful, and the arts.

The moral sense was once explained purely by religion. Now an evolutionary account is needed.

I gave them nothing back because all I knew was the vast amount they had taken from me, robbed me of, cheated me out of, all in the name of a God whose son bore the long hair none of us were allowed to wear any more.

We were taught to be God-fearing," my mother said. "One who loves does not brandish fear or require it.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.