Quotes About Religion

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.

Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community - are not.

Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.

Even though ripping on those of the Christian cloth is nothing new, edgy, or thought provoking, Hollywood feels the need to do it with each of their religiously overtoned talkies.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

I call myself 'Christ-leaning,' but that's primarily psychological.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

No student should be forced to choose between following her faith and enjoying the benefits of a public education.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

I am not Alt-Right, but I am Jewish and have publicly denounced the Alt-Right.

When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

People are told in their churches to vote Republican. I've heard pastors say it from the evangelical pulpit. Congregants are actually told that lower taxes and less government is the Christian way.

Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.

You are punished only when you are not performing as per expectation, and not because you belong to a particular religion, caste, or creed. Here, you fail because your vision is not right or you have not worked hard. That's why I believe we have true democracy in the film industry. How I wish the rest of the country was like the industry!

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.