Quotes About Religion

Catharine Finlay, alias Knight, was first converted by her son's expounding the Scriptures to her,

I loved exceedingly to converse on religious subjects, indeed I took no pleasure in any worldly concerns, and found all worldly possessions vain.

In particular, he had some sewed up in skins of wild beasts, and then worried by dogs until they expired; and others dressed in shirts made stiff with wax, fixed to axletrees, and set on fire in his gardens, in order to illuminate them.

He was the first who termed the pope Antichrist.

And all this to be done on pain of death, and confiscation of house and goods, unless within the limited time they turned Roman catholics.

We have run into false theology, we have run into "churchianity" and human interpretations, and a hundred other follies, but friends, it is a perfectly lovely and refreshing thing to get back to Jesus.

the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

the data show "a nearly linear association" between pornography use among adolescents and lack of religiosity. ...the importance of religion for daily life, however, correlates with avoiding pornography. Data from other surveys show that the use of pornography "deadens religious impulses.

study found that those who attend church regularly tend to be happier and more satisfied with life than those who do not.

The main thing between you and God is not so much your sins; it's your damnable good works.

From this", says Schrödinger, "I learned many things, but not religion." His favourite question was, "Sir, do you really believe that?

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

The ancient world assigned a value to divinely approved order similar to the value we assign to human rights.

Worship took place at temples, but temples were not designed primarily to provide a place for worship.[1] They were designed to be residences for deities and, as such, places for the performance of cultic rituals. The implications of this distinction are far-reaching and affect our understanding of deity and the role of the temple in the cosmos. Temples

Though the gods often had their own individual purposes, as a group they were unanimous in their general expectations of people: "Their servants were expected to be quiet, to keep the land in good order and to attend to the needs of their creators."[3] The gods had needs, the gods had jobs, and the gods had whims—these were all addressed in the practice of religion at the state level.

Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.

PTL was more Pentecostal than fundamentalist. Pentecostals have a better sense of how a culture feels than how a society works.

The principal aim of this book has been to reveal something of the complexity of the relationship between science and religion as they have interacted in the past. Popular generalizations about that relationship, whether couched in terms of war or peace, simply do not stand up to serious investigation. There is no such thing as the relationship between science and religion.

The possibilities of Evolution as an alternative religion were similarly perceived by a later popularizer, Wilhelm Bölsche, who spoke of the scientific movement as having effected a "Second Reformation." There had been an Old and a New Testament; now there was a third, the testament of science, which transcended both.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.