Quotes About Religion

you may not be the target audience for new music anymore. But that just means you have to scrounge a little harder to find it. You don't necessarily want to make a religion out of it; you just want to keep participating. Music isn't an accessory to a lifestyle--it's part of a life. It's not a youthful phase you go through.

Brother Jim loved to talk about how Jesus wasn't a pussy.

But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles—it was like being a glam-rock roadie for God.

William the Conqueror was an enthusiastic builder of churches and monasteries, but even by the time he and his invading armies arrived from Normandy in 1066, Britons' national psyche – their customs, culture and language – had already been shaped by almost 900 years of wrestling for possession between competing religious doctrines, heathen, pagan and Christian.

However, it may come as a surprise to know that in the Hebrew language the word for "service" is the same word used for "worship.

Finally, Madison dismissed religion as an effective restraint on oppressive mass behavior: "The inefficacy of this restraint on individuals is well known," and experience shows that religion "has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain — then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Though my father and mother forsook me, the Lord would gather me in. -Psalm 27:10

desacralizing

To believe in God is sinful. Only those who KNOW God are without sin. John 10:15

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

An atheist-laugh's a poor exchangeFor Deity offended.

Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper Here lies Johnie Pigeon; What was his religion? Whae'er desires to ken, To some other warl' Maun follow the carl, For here Johnie Pigeon had nane! Strong ale was ablution, Small beer persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full-flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.

One religion is as true as another.

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.