Quotes About Religion

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true." May 19, 1962

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership!

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.