Quotes About Religion

Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an unnecessary sermon on Original Sin, neither understood by himself, nor the people.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us that.

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.

You know: religion and art are both forms of madness and madness is the realm of psychiatry.

Religion and art are both forms of madness, and madness is the realm of psychiatry.

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.

As there can be no peace among individual men where there is no law, so there can be no peace among states who are subject to no law. Treaties are futile; our holy religion itself fails to secure peace. The curse of Italy—it may be of the world—is that cities and states acknowledge no law superior to themselves. For only where law is, there is peace.

There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light of the glow-worm, which gives no heat, and illumines nothing but itself

He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Then we got a new games mistress called Miss Smith. She was young and good fun. She taught dance, loved music and a laugh. She also talked about God. A lot. She had been 'born again', which seemed an unpleasant thought.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

The "Ofrendas" exhibition [within the 1987 art exhibition "Hispanic Art of the United States"] emphasized the fact that religious cosmologies and practices of Latin America are not minor/minority but rather espoused by vast numbers of people who are not white Protestant males. Unwittingly, perhaps, the exhibit suggested that we drop the words cult and superstition , as applied to non-European spiritual practices, and substitute the word religion .

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.

There ain't nothing like religion to bring out the worst in folks.

In fact they were initially sublimely indifferent to politics altogether, since they believed the world was going to end soon and that what mattered was preparing oneself for the immediate return of the Lord Jesus and an apocalyptic final judgement. Their core values focused around a personal (interior) relationship with God and holiness,

A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

Catechesis means impressing upon youth a Life, not a religion. —KENDA DEAN AND RON FOSTER

In short, you can't have the truths without the Truth. Either Jesus is telling the truth about Himself, or He is lying about everything else too. None of this business about Jesus being merely an enlightened Buddha of sorts, offering wiser-than-average insights into how to live a healthy, balanced life. None of this quoting Jesus in order to make your own point about justice or fairness or peace on earth when you don't really believe what Jesus said about Himself.

The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

He was religious, very religious indeed, this uncle of mine, and after the death of my aunt he became a Carthusian monk. As I write these lines, ill and aged as he is, and bent with pain, I know he is digging his own grave, weak with the weight of the spade, imploring God to take him, and thinking sometimes of me, of his little Bohemian. Ah, the dear, good man, it is to him that I owe all that is best in me.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.