Quotes About Religion

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

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