Quotes About Religion

And where does religion come into it? Are Protestant countries inherently less corrupt?" "No," she said. "I don't think it's that simple. The issue, I suppose, is whether a culture stresses telling the truth. That's the real point. It's not religion.

Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you…

You can follow the religions where God is small, or you can follow the religions where God is all.

Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.

He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, "I hate it when God is mean!

Shinto is nature. Perhaps animism—and Shinto is the only formal animistic religion left—is the true religion. It has roots deep in all of us. One recognizes this. It is the only religion that can inspire the feeling children know when the wind or a rock is made god for a week or a day. Its essence is unknown and unknowable, yet this unknown does not exclude us because we too are unknown. This religion speaks to us, to something in us which is deep and permanent.

Donde los sentimientos por Dios están muertos, la adoración está muerta»

If you will not worship God seven days a week," said A. W. Tozer, "you do not worship Him on one day a week.

The obscene laws that constitute apartheid are not crazed edicts issued by a dictator, nor the whims of a megalomanic monster, nor the one-man decisions of a fanatical ideologue. They are the result of polite caucus discussions by hundreds of delegates in sober suits, after full debate in party congresses. They are passed after three solemn readings in a parliament that opens every day's proceedings with a prayer to Jesus Christ. There is a special horror in that fact.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

For too many generations of the common people of Rome were allowed no hand in governing, and their state religion had long since mummified into dry rituals that never touched ordinary passions. It was inevitable, proclaimed the dour scholars of the philosophical schools, that the Colosseum would become their chief temple and the fortunes of gladiators would be watched more closely than the rise and fall of nations.

My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer.

New Age says there are many paths to God. Christianity quotes Jesus' own words: 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.' (John 14:6)

A televangelist or president blessing troops in the name of God somehow is reminiscent of a neo-Darwinist laying the blame for genocides on irrational religion, smugly sure of being inured from the same while claiming a kind of amoral immortality for the gene, that veritable Platonic abstraction, that chemical instantiation of eternal life going on indefinitely as the real world of life, which it produces, dies around it.

Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

No, if you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

I don't believe in God because somebody told me I have to or I'll burn in hell. I believe in God because I do. And if I can accept the whole concept of God, and I do, then why not Jesus too?

Please. Don't use the Lord's name, unless you're in prayer. It's a hundred years in purgatory.

It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.