Quotes About Religion

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Belief and faith are the spiritual soul of every man.

Questions about what counts as knowledge are at the heart of most dissensions about religion.

It's unfashionable these days to notice that a great many human beings have had, and continue to have, experiences that they describe as interactions with such powers by way of the teachings and practices just mentioned, and so scholars in a baker's dozen of disciplines and more have busied themselves coming up with other things that religion must "really" be about.

One claims that religious statements aren't referential at all, but purely expressive in nature; they communicate nothing but the emotional state of the person making them.

Another holds that while religious statements are referential, and subject to discussion they only have meaning within their own context and cannot be discussed productively from any outside point of view.

the most crucial source of dissatisfaction, which provoked the most explicit threats to hold up money, was religion.

by discouraging people from thinking for themselves and feeding them hopes of happiness in the next world, it sought to make them content with their lowly condition in this one.

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

Peor and BaalimForsake their temples dim.

Just are the ways of God,And justifiable to men;Unless there be who think not God at all.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.

Obviously Christianity is the one true faith, but if Islam is correct, u are fucked. I mean you are power fucked." - John Oliver to Alex McFarland

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

God without Christ is no God.

Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels only duty and no delight. He calls us to himself and to his Father. Therefore, he calls us to joy. Of course, it is not joy in things. Jesus is not preaching a health, wealth, and prosperity gospel—one of America's most lamentable exports to the world. It is joy in God and in his Son.

There are two ways of recommending true religion and virtue in the world, which God hath made use of: the one is by doctrine and precept; the other by instance and example.

His ally was the age-old, unending human search for truth and security. In the first century as the twenty first, some were devout, some superstitious, others were frankly materialistic, even though in that age they paid lip service to the gods. Others, contemptuous of religion, believed only in mankind. But at heart, when disguises were torn away and defenses broken, lay the same anxieties and hopes.

Since 9/11 what we have seen, and now increasingly understand in more depth than Christians in past generations, is that the final enemies of Jesus and of His people are not who we thought they would be. It may be surprising to learn that the future prophesied destroyers of the United States, and the purported conquerors of the world, pray regularly each day, prohibit abortion, denounce homosexuality, and forbid alcohol. Who are these people? Christian fundamentalists? Well, not quite.