Quotes About Religion

Every man for himself and God for us all.

Wine, on the other hand, is like religion: it's mysterious, sometimes literally opaque, and there are too many kinds of it. You never really know if a particular wine is good or bad; you just have to take it on faith from some judgy wine priest, an initiate to its mysteries. And wine is also like religion because the people who really get into it tend to be fucking unbearable.

It is often said that the Germans have never recovered from the Thirty Years' War in the seventeenth century, that the brutality of that momentous clash between Protestant and Catholic armies hard-wired into their national character a sense of insecurity that they have never been able to shake off.

I was picked up by a man in a hurry - a Franciscan monk who took pity on me...As we raced through the orange groves...I asked him to explain the difference between our god and theirs. His reply, "There is no difference; the difference is us.

When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.

G. K. Chesterton said that when a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing: he believes in anything.

Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.

it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

Had the Saracens captured Constantinople in the seventh century rather than the fifteenth, all Europe – and America – might be Muslim today.

he had violently opposed—as had the entire Curia—the foundation of the State of Israel.

The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.

A Ricky, que había adquirido una saludable falta de respeto por la religión en su ejercicio profesional, le gustó bastante la yuxtaposición del hospital para veteranos del ejército y las por lo menos seis iglesias distintas: era como si la dura realidad de los abandonados, representada por el hospital, sirviera para equilibrar en cierta medida el optimismo que circulaba sin control en las iglesias.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you.

Love is my religion — I could die for it.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

Historically it was Europe, not India, which consistently made religion grounds for war and the state an instrument of persecution.

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful.

All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.' By this rule, think I, the Kirk of Christ will measure God's religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.

that where a woman reigneth and papistes beare authoritie, that there must nedes Satan be president of the counsel, p.

That we should not pray to the glorious Virgyn Marie, butt to God only.