Quotes About Religion

And yet, had it not been for Judas, there might not have been a crucifixion, and had there been no crucifixion, there would have been no Christianity.

The Gentiles used to say about us: the diploma—that's the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma.

In the early 1990s, at the beginning of the Taliban regime, there had been a sort of relief that there was some law and order in the country, but that quickly turned bitter when the shariah was enforced.

I always got the words pedestrian and Presbyterian confused. I didn't understand why Presbyterians always had the right of way.

The next world is 'segregated'? You can go to the World of Yin only if you're Chinese? No-no! Miss Banner, she not Chinese, she go to Yin World. All depend what you love, what you believe. You love Jesus, go Jesus House. You love Allah, go Allah Land. You love sleep, go sleep. What if you don't believe in anything for sure before you die? Then you go big place, like Disneyland, many places can go try--you like, you decide. No charge, of course.

My father put his life in God's hands, and he encouraged us, his children, to believe that if we had absolute faith, God would take care of the rest. Miracles would happen.

Or maybe he would turn to religion. Many Americans did so when faced with heartache and hardship.

Every Sunday, the Jesus Worshippers asked me, Do you believe? I had to say not yet. I wanted to say yes to be polite. But then I would have been lying, and when I died maybe they would come after me and make me pay two kinds of penalty to the foreign devil, one for not believing, another for pretending that I did.

All depend what you love, what you believe. You love Jesus, go Jesus House. You love Allah, go Allah Land. You love sleep, go sleep.

Fear, I think, is the worst element of religions of all kinds. It is used to justify more fear, as well as hatred, lack of compassion, intolerance, and war.

We could choose what we wanted to believe. However, she added, any student who did not choose to believe in Jesus was a corpse-eating maggot, and when this unbeliever died, she would tumble into the underworld, where her body would be pierced by a bayonet, roasted like a duck, and forced to suffer all kinds of tortures that were worse than what was happening in Manchuria.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot and he creates Gods by the dozen. —Michel de Montaigne, Essais

Las personas que tienen una religión deberían de estar contentas, porque no a todos les es dado creer en cosas sobrenaturales.

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

Literature, the ultimate gift for expressing the most subtle aspects of man's thought and feeling, may not survive persecution: first by religion, then by the bourgeoisie, then by Marxism, and now by commercialism. The

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

Let us tell them the painful truth, that most of these works of art are about God, whom we never mention in polite society.

The idea of Sufism as a vaguely deist, New-Age-style philosophy with lots of poetry, alcohol and soft drugs is also immensely appealing to members of Pakistan's Westernized elites, whom it permits to follow a Westernized and hedonistic lifestyle without feeling that they have broken completely with their religion and its traditions.

Thus the Citizens' Foundation, the most widespread and effective educational charity in Pakistan (with more than 600 schools and 85,000 pupils), is a non-religious organization, but a majority of its founding members from the business community are practising Muslims – though they come from all the different branches of Islam represented in

In Pakistan, you often find that a wife is Shia, the husband Sunni. And in the past this was never a problem, but now extremists want to divide us. Sufism and Sufi shrines play a very important role against this, by bridging Sunni and Shia. When someone asks me if I am Sunni or Shia I reply that like my saints I really do not care. It is irrelevant. I think only of the will of God.

I have been scarcely been able to pray since I have been here: I have the childish feeling that God is no longer in the same place.

La nature d'une civilisation, c'est ce qui s'agrège autour d'une religion. Notre civilisation est incapable de construire un temple ou un tombeau. Elle sera contrainte de trouver sa valeur fondamentale, ou elle se décomposera.

Ces sculptures-là, l'homme qui les a faites, il aimait ce qu'il faisait. Moi, ici, j'ai toujours été contre ce qui est destruction. Les curés, bien sûr, je ne suis pas d'accord ; les églises, j'ai rien contre. Moi, j'ai mon idée, je trouve qu'on devrait en faire des théâtres : c'est riche, on entend bien....

Il catafero di Japichinu sarebbe andato a finire nello sbalanco di qualche chiarchiàro... No, il nonno sapeva quanto fosse religioso il nipoteddru. L'avrebbe fatto seppellire anonimamente in terra consacrata. Dintra il tabbuto di un altro.