Quotes About Religion

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

I don't believe in atheists.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.