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Quotes About Religion

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
~ Umberto Eco
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.
~ Ciaran Hinds
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
~ George Herbert
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
~ Joseph Joubert
My spirituality and my beliefs are way beyond any superstition - I'm not a conformist - and I do have a scientific outlook towards religion. Our body is made up of different elements, and certain stones help align these elements.
~ Ekta Kapoor
Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
~ Voltaire
I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian.
~ Wanderlei Silva
I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.
~ Elif Batuman
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
~ Josh McDowell
I am so superstitious that I think even discussing this subject is dangerous and will probably bring me terrible luck. Having been raised a Catholic, superstition becomes almost part of your DNA. The challenge is to slowly rid yourself of these little delusions.
~ Anthony McCarten
I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.
~ Clive Sinclair
A reforming liberal leader in Russia is the Holy Grail of Kremlinology, but the search for one is as misguided and hopeless as that for the relic of the Last Supper.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.
~ Carrie Underwood
The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't know what Trump has to do to lose his supporters. It's like a religion. He's a school bully.
~ Ricky Gervais
If someone is supporting Sharia, that is doing something wrong.
~ Paul Nehlen
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
~ Nat Turner
I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
~ Natascha McElhone
I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
~ George R. R. Martin
I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.
~ Pauline Collins
I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
~ Penn Jillette
Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
~ Pam Grier
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
~ Michael Newdow
Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
~ Jay Parini