Quotes About Religion

Mój ojciec niewÄ…tpliwie cierpiaÅ' z powodu swojego ateizmu, tym bardziej ?e uwielbiana przez niego matka byÅ'a wierzÄ…ca i pewnie marzyÅ', ?eb podziela? jej wiarÄ™... Bez wÄ…tpienia chciaÅ' równie? zachowa? siÄ™ jak hojny ojciec i oznajmi? swojemu dziecku, ?e Bóg istnieje... ByÅ'aby to dobra nowina... ?aska, której nie umiaÅ' przekaza?...

The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.

To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.

If a person does not emerge from incestuous attachment to mother, clan, nation, if he retains the childish dependence on a punishing and rewarding father, or any other authority, he cannot develop a more mature love for God; then his religion is that of the earlier phase of religion, in which God was experienced as an all-protective mother or a punishing rewarding father. In

In my view the imposing tower of misery which today rests on the heart of India has its sole foundation in the absence of education. Caste divisions, religious conflicts, aversion to work, precarious economic conditions – all centre on this single factor.

Ancient India cannot be fitted into the narrow box where the Hindutva activists want to incarcerate it.

Though Buddhism is a religion like any other, it began with at least two specific characteristics that were quite unusual, to wit, its foundational agnosticism and its commitment to public communication and discussion.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

Scriptures: the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Religious folk could be so deliciously predictable. He could set his watch by their hypocrisy.

Ä°nançlar?n?n tehdit alt?nda olduÄŸunu hisseden insanlar aras?nda, bütün kimliklerini özetler gibi görünen ÅŸey dinsel aidiyet oluyor. Ama tehdit alt?nda olan anadilleri ve etnik gruplar?ysa, o zaman dindaÅŸlar?yla k?yas?ya sava??yorlar.

Si l'on faisait l'histoire comparée du monde chrétien et du monde musulman, on découvrirait d'un côté une religion longtemps intolérante, porteuse d'une évidente tentation totalitaire, mais qui s'est peu à peu muée en religion d'ouverture, de l'autre côté une religion porteuse d'une vocation d'ouverture, mais qui peu à peu dérivé vers des comportements intolérants et totalitaires.

C'est l'occident qui est croyant, jusque dans sa laïcité, et c'est l'Occident qui est religieux, jusque dans l'athéisme. Ici, au Levant, on ne se préoccupe pas des croyances, mais des apparences. Nos confessions sont des tribus, notre zèle religieux est une forme de nationalisme...

Parce qu'il y a toujours eu, dans le discours de ceux qui portent traditionnellement les idées du conservatisme, une tonalité identitaire – souvent fondée sur la religion, la nation, la terre, la civilisation, la race, ou un mélange de tout cela.