Quotes About Religion

Jesus didn't care about a "holy table" as the religious establishment defined "holy." For Jesus a holy table was one that was open to anyone, a table where all God's children were present.

Jewish males prayed a daily prayer of thanksgiving, which ended: Praise be to God who has not made me a non-Jew. Praise be to God who has not made me an ignorant person. Praise be to God who has not made me a woman.68

No part of the regular school day was set aside for religious worship…. Jefferson did not permit the room belonging to the university to be used for religious purposes.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone .

Ritual, art, poesy, drama, music, dance, philosophy, science, myth, religion are all as essential to man as his daily bread: man's true life consists not alone in the work activities that directly sustain him, but in the symbolic activities which give significance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations.

The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.

Cómo se inventa uno una religión? —preguntó Evie. Will la miró por encima de los cristales de sus gafas. —Dices 'Dios me ha dicho lo siguiente', y luego esperas a que la gente se apunte.

Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.

Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?

I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who . Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.

Well, now, you see, I have a firm policy that I never drink hot cocoa by myself. It's against my religion. You have a religion? Ling sniffled. Well, no. Not really. But if I did, that would be the first commandment.

But as he listened to the moans and cries of those around him, he understood that hope was not a concept of faith meant to bring man closer to God but one of denial and delusion meant to keep him from accepting that God did not exist.

Well, now, you see, I have a firm religion that I never drink hot cocoa by myself. It's against my religion. You have a religion? Ling sniffled. Well, no. Not really. But if I did, that would be the first commandment.

La línea entre la fe y el fanatismo está en constante movimiento -respondió el profesor- ¿Cuándo se convierte la fe en justificación? Cuándo se transforma el derecho en lógica y la cruzada en delito?

My aunt says you should only pray to Jesus. Blind Bill grunted and spat. You think the white folks' god is gonna help you? You think he's on our side? I don't think anybody's god is on our side.

You couldn't find a Jewish sheik?

Perhaps it was the word God that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon.

They were not beggars; well, not in the usual sense. They were Christians, who wanted not just my nephews' money but their souls.

The biggest cause of society's change today is that people no longer believe in orthodox religion. They go to church, but they no longer believe in God.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.