Quotes About Religion

Les habitants de la terre se divisent en deux, Ceux qui ont un cerveau, mais pas de religion, Et ceux qui ont une religion, mais pas de cerveau.

comment persuader nos contemporains qu'en demeurant prisonniers des conceptions tribales de l'identité, de la nation ou de la religion, et en continuant à glorifier l'égoïsme sacré, ils préparent à leurs propres enfants un avenir apocalyptique ?

Néanmoins, force est de constater que, dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, nulle part on ne parvient à faire vivre ensemble, de manière équilibrée et harmonieuse, des populations chrétiennes, musulmanes et juives.

Ce que je regrette, c'est la disparition d'un certain état d'esprit qui a existé du temps des empires, et qui considérait comme normal et légitime que des peuples vivent au sein d'une même entité politique sans avoir forcément la même religion, la même langue, ni la même trajectoire historique.

Cette méfiance profonde entre les adeptes des religions monothéistes, solidement installée dans les esprits et constamment alimentée par l'actualité quotidienne, rend difficile tout échange fécond entre les populations, et toute osmose harmonieuse entre les cultures.

The sole purpose of terms such as spirit and immortal soul was to allow unscrupulous and corrupt clergymen to frighten men and subject them to their will.

What up to that point could have been viewed as an internal rebellion within the Church now became a schism in which two rival faiths confronted each other in open hostility.

Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.

The Roman Catholic portrait at the reception of the Indian YMCA displayed the generic Christ, the timorous, blonde-haired, blue-eyed face upturned to the heavens, a lost middle-class student searching for guidance in an inhospitable world.

Blasphemy is a religious experience.

Class was what formed you, but didn't travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled out by religion and race, but not class, which was more indecipherable than any other mother tongue. He'd learnt that not only were light, language, and weather contingent – class was too.

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

MATTERS OF FAITH

No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

Not faith but moral behavior is the essence of all religion.

Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs, grills, dominion, torture chambers, and gallows. All these faiths, including those that have appeared in recent generations and continue to mesmerize adherents to this day, all arose to save us and all just as soon started to shed our blood.

As Bill Coffin put it, "We worship the Word made flesh, not the Word made words.

she didn't understand a thing about Catholics. It's all praise Mary, she said, women doing all the hard work and letting men run the church and calling the shots for everyone.

Whatcha doing, Lieu?" she asked cautiously. "Praying," he muttered. "I suck at it." "Your doing it wrong," she said flatly. "I'm not big on church, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do it with a friend.

See, that's what God's voice was to me. When I was a kid, I thought God's voice was the church bells,

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.