Quotes About Religion

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.