Quotes About Religion

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

It's important to understand that violent Islam is only one face of violent religion.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

I took to religion at about age 12; it was very hard for me to be Sabbath observant as a kid in a home which was not Sabbath observant. I think my parents thought the whole Jewish thing was a phase.

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.