Quotes About Religion

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

I think science and religion should be separate.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

Religion is the opium of the poor

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.