Quotes About Religion

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Unbelief in the supernatural is a belief in its own nature.

If you will trust your destiny it will be your religion.

A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.

i'm not a dreamerI Just believe in Allah (God)

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God?

Jesus Christ is Free Trade and Free Trade is Jesus Christ." Truer words, I believe, were never spoken. If it is God's will that opium be used as an instrument to open China to his teachings, then so be it.

that politics has invaded everything, spared nothing . . . religion, art, family . . . it has taken over everything . . . there is no escape from it . . .

The difference, Gopal told the Rationalists, between the Science Association and their own society was that they did not consider science alone, something people pursued in the seclusion of laboratories, important in itself. He himself was studying not science but English literature. Their aim was the application of rational principles to everything around them—to their own lives, to society, to religion, to history. It didn't matter what.