Quotes About Religion

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

The home of Religion is the heart.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.