Quotes About Religion

Pharisees lived "according to the strictest party of . . . religion."3 The name itself is probably derived from the root "to separate." Pharisaism was essentially a conservative "holiness movement." So

He was permitted, without restriction, to speak of himself as immoral, agnostic and socialistic, so long as it was universally known that he remained pure, Presbyterian, and Republican.

And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?' 'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be.

Say, I swear the best Messiah in the whole show is this darky, Father Divine.

He called himself an "agnostic" instead of an "atheist" only because he detested the street-bawling, tract-peddling evangelicism of the professional atheists.

Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It is a bulwark of sound religion. It is still combating the recent heresies of Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert Ingersoll. Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities.

Except, perhaps, that he was an atheist in theology, he was a strict orthodox Christian.

Carol was dismayed to find the Christian religion, in America, in the twentieth century, as abnormal as Zoroastrianism – without the splendor.

Ellen Whoozis, the cocktail-party queen, who writes the Necking Notes, is going to marry the religious editor!

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;

nd that, in a thimble, is patriarchy. Mary Daly puts it more elegantly and succinctly: "As long as god is male," she says, "the male is God." Which is why changing our view of God has everything to do with changing the world.

I say that this crime is holy.

Not I. Only the gods can give you that.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

my whole authorship pertains to Christianity, to the issue: becoming a Christian, with direct and indirect polemical aim at that enormous illusion, Christendom-- Soren Kierkegaard The Point of View for My Work as an Author, (The Single Individual)

Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy

What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.

Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.