Quotes About Religion

So you're not a Protestant anymore? You're Catholic now?

There was no ball of smoking incense, no cup of magic wine, and none of the other equipment essential to talk to God.

Jews had lived in Sicily before Christians, settling on the east coast, then spreading outward, flourishing under Muslim rule. Palermo became a Jewish center, but everything changed under Aragonese rule.

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

Everyone becomes a believer in a crisis, calling on a God with whom to cut a last-ditch deal. She'd

All talk and discussion about God (theo-logy means god-talk) is really an exercise in human self-understanding.

It's true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow. Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight. That's not insight. That's a personal guarantee.

Anyone who desires to see the gods face-to-face is a great fool

People can get almost anything wrong," sighed Oswyl. "Theology cannot be an exception.

I had to explain to them that the Bastard does not ever execute unrepentant sinners with a dirk, nor a large hammer.

Do not deny the gods. And they will not deny you.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo Galilei

In my mother's house there is still God. Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun

I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

No, I'm not Jewish, she said archly, staring him down, to teach him, to teach him this: Are you? Yes, he said. He studied her eyes. Oh, she said. Not many of us in this part of the world, so I thought I'd ask. Yes. She felt an embarrassed sense of loss, as if something that should have been hers but wasn't had been taken away, legally, by the police.

WORKS on dogmatic or systematic theology generally begin with the doctrine of God.

Ratiocination is a relatively superficial and unreal path to the deity.

In view of the semen religionis implanted in every man by his creation in the image of God, it is safe to assume that no one is born an atheist. In the last analysis atheism results from the perverted moral state of man and from his desire to escape from God. It is deliberately blind to and suppresses the most fundamental instinct of man, the deepest needs of the soul, the highest aspirations of the human spirit, and the longings of a heart that gropes after some higher Being.

Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemies.

I am not a religious man, I am a materialist, but even I can see that priests are a kind of bacteria that enable people to find life digestible.

Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it.

The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder

I am no philosopher, but I know this. Your religions cause wars and prevent marriages. There will be no peace on earth until every synagogue, every mosque, every church, and every temple is razed to the ground or made into a barn, and when that happens, no one will be happier than the Lord God Himself.

nationalism and religion as the unholy spouses from whose fetid conjugal bed nothing but evil can crawl forth