Quotes About Religion

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.

As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Christians must focus on Jesus Christ.

Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.

One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion).

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Is the any religion like a right act?

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.