Quotes About Religion

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.