Quotes About Religion

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel Carrie he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.

Christ. No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel's sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

I'm not laughing at you guys, King said. It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

It's just that if there's a God, he's doing a piss poor job.

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan notion that the best way to figure out which folks God favours is by checking their bank acounts.

Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.

I remember something my mother used to say. The Devil can quote scripture

The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies

When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant. - The Mist

Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so – pardon the pun – so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

Thè Scripture is a Divine Word.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

You will never find true love until you first learn to love Allah

If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!"