Quotes About Religion

Religion and kings don't mix – ought to be banned!

religion is for the poor, not the rich and powerful.

One person believes in sprites and visits the sacred grove, and another believes in Jesus and goes to the church. It's just a matter of fashion. There's no use in getting involved with just one god; they're more like brooches or pearls, just for decoration. For hanging around your neck, or for playing with.

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do.

Whatever. Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do.

Nie drwij z cudzej religii, ani to Å'adne, ani grzeczne, ani... bezpieczne.

In every religion, among the people who believe in it and fight for it, there is one Francis of Assisi to a legion of Brother Arnulphs.

Wzi??em od niego gada. By? sztywny. G?sior skrzywi? si? z obrzydzeniem, gdy podetkn??em mu ten totem pod nos. - To nie dla mnie. Jestem zanadto katolicki. - Wszyscy katolicy to tchórze, G?sior - powiedzia? Ma?y. - Boj? si?, ?e jaki? iguandon móg? jednak wyjeba? ich prababk?. A mo?e, nie daj Bo?e, w??? Zgroza. St?d ten pomys? na osobowego Boga. Od razu razniej, nie? Pycha was zgubi.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

Tim Keller writes, "When the church as a whole is no longer seen as speaking to questions that transcend politics, and when it is no longer united by a common faith that transcends politics, then the world sees strong evidence that Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx were right, that religion is really just a cover for people wanting to get their way in the world."13

But I'm not sitting around praying for revival either. I grew up in the "pray for revival" culture.

Ortopraxia? Ortopraxia es un término compuesto que simplemente significa práctica correcta. En contextos teológicos, la ortopraxia es la forma en la que la ortodoxia (la creencia correcta) se ve en el mundo real. Es el comportamiento tanto ético como moral asociado con una fe o sistema de creencias.

The prince frowned again. "The name? Why do you not speak your God's name?" "Because His name is holy," I answered, "and not to be invoked lightly.

I've heard that about your people. But how can one God do everything? He would have to be huge, and he would have to be everywhere

Listen to the world and you'd think there are many ways to God', he says. 'But Jesus himself said, "I am the way, and no man comes to the Father but by me". So it doesn't matter what Oprah or Dr. Phil or Deepak Chopra says. They don't have the keys to Heaven. Only Jesus holds the keys to life and death, and if he says he's the way, then he is.

We took the words of God's guidance in the Torah and fashioned them into cages in which we felt secure. For

We should question our beliefs continually—not God Himself, not Christ our Lord, but what other men tell us about God and Christ. Otherwise we are little more than the frozen statues you see in so many churches.

I absolutely agree with you, but unfortunately the Bishop doesn't. He has found a new hymn by a religious Atheist beginning: 'O God, although Thou art not there, Men sing to Thee as if Thou were,

The Knox family were all there, as neither George's Catholicism nor his Presbyterianism prevented him from supporting the vicar, who was a great friend.

The South has incorporated slavery into religion; that is the most fearful thing in this rebellion. They are fighting, verily believing that they are doing God service.