Quotes About Religion

I still believe in God, I still believe in the fundamentals of that. But I base it on the fact God is love.

My first memories are of picketing ex-servicemen's funerals and telling their families they were going to burn in hell.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold of her hair, for her religion, for her sense of duty. It was a satisfaction to take her about with him.

there are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard

The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite.

It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian.

Like any other human activity, religion can be abused and made to exacerbate our frightened egoism instead of helping us to transcend it.

She asked what I had learned in Sunday school and I always said, "Jesus wept." I didn't want to go into my feelings about a God who put a father to a test to see if he'd kill his own son like a lamb to roast, and then sent his only child to be nailed onto a cross and fed vinegar

He was increasingly doubtful of the existence of any God; but he hoped it was a vengeful one.

Every religion in the world is about man trying to reach up to God, like working your way up the ladder. They're all about striving to achieve something for yourself. Christianity is the only religion about God reaching down to man and offering salvation as a free gift, with the added bonus of a personal relationship with the Creator God through Jesus Christ, who was there in the beginning.

I am not giving up on God because of what one man said from the pulpit.

Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. JAMES 1:27

Membertou first was catechised, confessed his sins, and renounced the Devil, whom we are told he had faithfully served during a hundred and ten years.

He professed himself a Catholic, but his Catholicity sat lightly on him;

When no obvious practical purpose for a possible structure presents itself, archaeologists tend to reach for their explanation of last resort, namely 'ritual', or religion.

A ciência sem religião é coxa, a religião sem a ciência é cega.' Alber Einstein (1941). p.176

o ateísmo é a menos racional de todas as concepções possíveis do mundo. p.179

Some people ask nowadays what kind of a religion it is that chooses an instrument of torture for its symbol, as if the cross on churches must represent some kind of endorsement. The answer is: one that takes the existence of suffering seriously.

But if I'd been so fortunate as to have a God-given talent like yours, I wouldn't have wasted it." Mom wasn't particularly religious, but when laying on a guilt trip, she liked to bring along backup, and she figured God was the only disapproving authority as fearsome as she.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.