Quotes About Religion

There's a difference between religion and faith, Chandi said, Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.

Faith is a great thing. The trick is keeping it. Dad

Hannah had spent her teens being scornful of religion, but the Christian churches were now the last line of defence against the indifference and stupidity of successive governments of different political stripes.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.

The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Mammon, n. The god of the world's leading religion. His chief temple is in the city of New York

PIETY, n. Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

KORAN, n. A book which the Mohammedans foolishly believe to have been written by divine inspiration, but which Christians know to be a wicked imposture, contradictory to the Holy Scriptures.

ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

BRAHMA, n. He who created the Hindoos, who are preserved by Vishnu and destroyed by Siva—a rather neater division of labor than is found among the deities of some other nations.

CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.

REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

Patriarchy is a kind of shirk [or idolatry] … stemming from the Satanic notion of istikbar (thinking of oneself as better than another) …

Enough to make a man believe in God,' said Temple. 'And that He's somewhere else.

In bloody days, swords were worth more than gods.

Walk in God's footsteps, Ferro Maljinn." "Huh. They have no God here." "Say rather that they have many." "Many?" "Had you not noticed? Here, each man worships himself.