Quotes About Religion

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

I don't bring religion into the square.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .