Quotes About Religion

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

I consider the Christian religion so important, [Jesus is] somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you. I shall worship as I please and hope for all men to worship as they please in Scotland.

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

This is about safety. This has nothing to do with religion.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.