Quotes About Religion

Religion by its very principle is not always logical; in essence, faith is believing in something you cannot understand with rational thought.

Even the most liberal religious scholars will agree on two things: one, the baptism of Jesus happened; and two, the crucifixion was real.

Q: How do you make holy water? A: Fill a pot with water and boil the hell out of it.

No other religion has a God who serves His people rather than demanding service of them. This is why for Martin Luther justification was the chief article of the faith. Christ turned over our human expectations so that His glorious grace might be our faith and confession. God destroys our acquisitive holiness by giving us a perfect ransom that we cannot acquire. This ransom frees us from constantly seeking to put ourselves on top. We are free to be last, because Christ exalts us.

He's trying to control me, and he wants to use his religion to do that. Religion isn't just a power word- the word is power itself.

No wonder I'm anxious: I'm like Woody Allen trapped in John Calvin.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its ten thousands.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The man who will demand ten signatures upon a promissory note and look askance at you if you tell him of interplanetary distances, will swallow any idle fable, no matter how absurd, if it be boldly asserted and surrounded with sufficient nonsensical mummery and labeled as a religion.

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.