Quotes About Religion

Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.

Rather than politics of 'love jihad,' why shouldn't the concept of Love Jihad be applicable in politics?

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

Some kids went to the movies for escape. We found it with jazz. This is where we got religion. It was a kind of raw spiritual anarchy.

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

I was raised to think that if you behaved badly with men, you went to hell. I realise now it is puritanical and not very adult.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.

I definitely believe that tormenting other people because of the Bible and for that to be - for lack of a better word, Gospel... I think that is not very nice.

I know people who have sampled gospel music, and then they go to clear the sample, and it's like, 'You can't take the Lord's music and make this.'

We are not saying that if you believe in evolution that you can't be a Christian, not at all. Because the Bible says that by grace you are saved. You don't save yourself. It is by confessing the Lord Jesus and that he was rose from the dead that you are saved.

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

You can pass on my respects to the grand mufti, but I will not cover myself up.