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Quotes About Religion

When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
It is not illegal for an adult male to 'thigh' or enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her.
~ Ruhollah Musawi Khomeini
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it's still one light.
~ Rumi
Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!
~ RuPaul
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
I suppose Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals and birds, all play their part, both in mythology and in everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in these remote places, where gods and mountains co-exist. Tungnath, as yet unspoilt by a materialistic society, exerts its magic on all who come here with open mind and heart.
~ Ruskin Bond
As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.
~ Ruskin Bond
when I was a boy, reading was my true religion. It helped me discover my soul.
~ Ruskin Bond
Of all the animals on this planet, we are surely the nastiest, the most deceitful, the most murderous and vile. Despite our God, or because of him. Both.
~ Russell Banks
If there were no God the Father, there could be no brotherhood of man.
~ Russell Kirk
Now in truth our society is not a "capitalist system" at all, but a complex cultural and social arrangement that comprehends religion, morals, prescriptive political institutions, literary culture, a competitive economy, private property, and much more besides. It is not a system designed to secure and advance the interests of great possessors of capital goods unjustly acquired.
~ Russell Kirk
When an orthodoxy decays, the old dark gods, the savage gods, win back their burnt offerings.
~ Russell Kirk
Scientology processing, which tended to produce subservience amounting almost to mental enslavement.
~ Russell Miller
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible?
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
~ Ruth St. Denis
Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.
~ Ryan Adams
This is a painting that is at best one-third "I love religion so I'm gonna paint my favorite religious figures enjoying a meal" and at least two-thirds "Bro, my vanishing point is off the hook, seriously, check out my wall rectangles, you don't even know.
~ Ryan North
God: You should always believe in God because he is real, but you should never trust him because he is pure evil.
~ Ryan Pack
How can you misbehave so badly and expect me to believe that you believe in God? It's a dead giveaway that you are a liar.
~ Ryan Pack
Religion: Any religion that inspires, encourages, motivates, coerces, compels, forces, unjust behaviors, acts, or constraints, prohibits, just behaviors, acts, is not a religion at all, it is a false teaching. Don't ever devote yourself to it.
~ Ryan Pack
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
We ask not "Which religion alone is true?" but "What end is most ultimate, even if many are real?" and "Which life will I hope to realize?
~ S. Mark Heim