Quotes About Religion

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.

There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.

I realized, year of the tiger was 1974, which was the year my father passed away when I was a kid... My family, at that point, were Christian Scientists. So basically, this woman Mary Baker Eddy started this in the 1800s, and the premise is that you don't go to doctors. You believe that God is gonna heal you.

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.

Indian culture built numerous temples on every street. The idea was not to create temples that were in competition with one another. The idea was simply that no one should live in a space that is not consecrated. It

When you live by the memory of a single book, you are religious. When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But if you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic.

When you accept serving humanity as your religion, you start to feel God within you, then you don't need to search God in any Temples or Mosques.

Minds should be enlightened with science, and hearts need to be illumined with religion.

Are we Muslims because we believe in God Almighty, or do we believe in God because we are Muslims?

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.

You are a Ciceronian, not a Christian.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Regard the Franj! Behold with what obstinacy they fight for their religion, while we, the Muslims, show no enthusiasm for waging holy war.