Quotes About Religion

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

You must begin with God.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F- out of everybody!

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As

But wait - where did the gods come from 100,000 years ago? Early Homo Sapiens certainly had conversations with other early Homo Sapiens regarding what they thought of one another, and what they thought about a third early Homo Sapiens who had insulted them, and why they were no longer on speaking terms with the other person, ad finitum, just as happens today. But you cannot have such conversations about the gods or with the gods unless you have gods.

I'll tell you what I don't want at my funeral," says Johnny. "I don't want a bunch of New York art-world types who don't even know me standing around in a stupid-ass reception room." "I don't want religious people talking about a God I don't believe in," says Gat. "Or a bunch of fake girls acting all sad and then putting lip gloss on in the bathroom and fixing their hair," says Mirren.