Quotes About Religion

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

We're definitely going to get Brooklyn christened, but we don't know into which religion.

I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

Are We Going to die in our religion or are we going to die in our devotion?

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?