Quotes About Religion

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

I believed in God my whole life.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?

My religion is life, and my church is the universe.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

apart from the few who make a professional specialty of arguing about religion, secularist thinkers are generally unacquainted with anything but absurd caricatures of traditional religious ideas and arguments, are utterly unaware that anything other than these caricatures exist, and thus don't bother to look for anything but straw men to attack.

without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania.

It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.