Quotes About Religion

And my husband, why, hell hath no fury like a Baptist preacher.

Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.

Angus. It's football. Take that out of high school, it's church with no Jesus. Who would even go?

In this town, white politicians and black ministers seemed to go together like tears and tissues. At election time, the pols got religion and came looking for the blessings of black ministers as a way to get black votes without providing the kinds of services to black communities that they at least promised to East Boston and Charlestown and the other mostly white Boston neighborhoods.

me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God." Please, believe me, it's the baptism and the spirit of love behind it that counts, and not the man that does it, or where it's done. We need neither a church nor a font

The Jews are a people descended from the Hebrews and the Israelites, from the tribes of Israel. Our religion is called Judaism. It is founded on the Old Testament and the Torah both.' Emma was listening intently and the

Then you have perhaps read the Book of Exodus. You certainly must know the Ten Commandments?' She nodded affirmatively, and he expounded further: 'The Ten Commandments were given to our people by Moses, when he led us out of Egypt and created the Jewish

My mother would have wanted me to say a prayer, crossing myself at its conclusion, and had this been her grave, I would have done so. But such a western ritual would have been an insult to my father in his life, and why would I do something to offend him now? I smiled. It was hard to avoid that kind of thinking. My father was dead. Still, I offered no prayer.

God. That bastard, he doesn't exist. —Samuel Beckett

My mother had tried to raise me as a Catholic, but war had deracinated whatever meager plantings her efforts had achieved. No God ever would have stood silent spectator to what I saw in Vietnam. To what I did there. Either there was no God, or there was and he didn't give a damn.

Strangest of all is the professional ginseng hunter, because for him it is not a plant but a religion.

I had a theology professor once," I said to John, "who told us that religion was not about being certain but about living with uncertainty. It was about being comfortable with doubt, and maintaining the continuity of one's reverence for a profound mystery.

Religious institutions then become a kind of market for comfort, tranquility, spirituality, and ethical reflection, and we "religion consumers" shop in that market until we find what we like.

Philosophers talked a lot about how people should act toward one another, as members of a family, in relationships with friends and neighbors, as citizens of a city. Good behavior was part of being a worthwhile human being and a responsible citizen. But it generally was not a part of religious activities.

I wonder if the fact that I left the faith is somehow seen as threatening, at least among people who have a gnawing suspicion

Jews also believed that divinities could become human and humans could become divine.

few religions in the history of the human race have shown a greater penchant for conflict than the religion founded on the teachings of Jesus

Henotheism is the view that there are other gods, but there is only one God who is to be worshipped. The Ten Commandments express a henotheistic view, as does the majority of the Hebrew Bible. The book of Isaiah, with its insistence that "I alone am God, there is no other," is monotheistic. It represents the minority view in the Hebrew Bible.

The time when Christianity arose, with its exalted claims about Jesus, was the same time when the emperor cult had started to move into full swing, with its exalted claims about the emperor. Christians were calling Jesus God directly on the heels of the Romans calling the emperor God.

Precisely those conservative evangelical scholars who claim that mass hallucinations don't happen are the ones who deny that the Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared to hundreds or thousands of people at once, even though we have modern, verified eyewitness testimony that she has.

Pagans never had to affirm anything. As odd as this seems, pagans were not required to believe truths about the gods. Paganism was instead about performing the proper, traditional cultic acts.

The other advantage of making the author a famous religious figure of the past is that such books often purport to tell the future.

79 percent of Christians in America believe Jesus will be returning to earth at some point.

Thus, for Reimarus, the disciples started the Christian religion.