Quotes About Religion

Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.

I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be a good Christian, then maybe I'm not a good Christian.'

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.

I was raised really religious, and it's a big part of my life. No matter what I go through, my faith will always be there.

My granddad was an elder at our church, so it was a big part of my life growing up.

There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big questions in life - why are we here, what is truth, where is our moral basis?

If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

I believe in my mother's blessings. And as far as Sai Baba is concerned, I believe there is only one God.

I've got the Lord on board.

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

I think I'd really like to live in Israel. Even for someone like myself who is not that into religion, you go to Israel, and it's breathtaking in a lot of ways.

I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs.

We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.

I had to burn all of my non-Christian records.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

I've never really gone out and told people, 'I'm a Christian. I believe in God, and that is the reason why I'm successful. That is the reason why I'm still here doing what I'm doing.'