Quotes About Religion

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

Have you ever thought about letting Cheesus into your Life?

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.

Let us never forget that an age prospers or dwindles in proportion to its devotion to the Holy Eucharist. This is the measure of its spiritual life and its faith, of its charity and its virtue.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

The Stetson passage is an allusion to Frazer theory in The Golden Bough that religion originated as agricultural engineering. Through a grotesque process of literalization, all of the dying gods and heroes in The Golden Bough, along with Christ and the Fisher King, are transferred from mythic to modern consciousness ( Frazer himself was an unabashed positivist) to be made explicable in scientific terms as fertilizer.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.