Quotes About Religion

religious tolerance, independent judiciaries, free press and speech, economic integration, international institutions, the transatlantic alliance, and a political idea of "the West.

Others throw their children into the Volga, preferring to see them drown rather than be brought up in the communist faith, which they believe is an anti-Christ doctrine

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live....

The Orthodox Church has been central to Russian identity and empire since 988,

Russians now say they are Orthodox believers,

Archbishop Feofan, was appointed with the specific task of raising up the church

that the Orthodox Church must be the country's unifying force,

For him, the resurrection of the church means the resurrection of Russia.

the Orthodox Church has quietly used its authority to prevent "nontraditional" communities

Mormons would like to cut back on American missionaries and rely more on Russians.

has to continually battle Orthodox charges that his church is a "foreign un-Russian sect,

Evangelicals' support for Vladimir Putin, his takeover of Crimea,

No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

I broke with my religion in college.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

Mysticism is the most scientific form of religion, for it bases itself, as does all science, on experience and experiment—experiment being only a specialised form of experience, devised either to discover or to verify.

Religions are branches from a common trunk - Divine Wisdom.

What Religion has to face in the controversies of to-day is not the unbelief of the sty, but the unbelief of the educated conscience and of the soaring intellect;

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

On another afternoon I entered Saint Patrice's Church just off the Boulevard de la Marne to tell a priest that I'd had an abortion. I immediately realized this was a mistake. I felt bathed in a halo of light and for him I was a criminal. Leaving the church, I realized that I was through with religion.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.