Quotes About Religion

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

Every time John Travolta assaults a masseur, a scientologist gets their wings.

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.