Quotes About Religion

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project.