Quotes About Religion

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

With Islam, there's the Sharia. There's the Islamic law which prevails, and as long as it doesn't distinguish between God and the state, it's a problem.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic... I'm very faithful.

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

Some of the most intelligent people I've met in my life are priests and pastors; now, a lot of them aren't that, though. Some of the most sanctimonious and hypocritical people I've met are priests and pastors, also.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

I think all priests should be married.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.