Quotes About Religion

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

If you have some problem in your life and you need to deal with it then use religion it's fine. I use Google.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.