Quotes About Religion

I have had to believe much in God because I have stopped believing in men.

As a consequence, he faced the unavoidable fact that the Ottoman Sultan was conquering the Byzantine Empire by allowing that Islam and Christianity were not incompatible, and that Christian subjects could live under the secular rule of a Muslim.

A person's got to be scared all the time - of God, if there is one, and of looking like a fool if there isn't.

La visión del mundo que pretendían establecer los norteamericanos se basaba en la convicción de la superioridad del «modo de vida americano»,[35] asociada a la idea de que su componente religioso era una garantía de su ventaja moral sobre «el comunismo ateo».

el modo de vida americano» (lo que tanto en Truman como en su sucesor, Eisenhower, aparece ligado a la religión; el enemigo es «el comunismo ateo»),

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Here, again, you find the unsoundness of many professors who consider themselves good Christians; they are partial in the law, and take up with the cheap and easy duties of religion, but go not through with the work. It may be you find them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and as for examining themselves and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers.

Methodist, madam,' said he, 'pray what is that?' She replied, 'Why, the Methodists are a people that do nothing but pray: they are praying all day and all night.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

Christianity is preached by the ignorant and believed by the learned. And in this way is like no other thing.

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its ministers. To annihilate it or to submit it to the discussion of all individuals, is the same thing.

Qu'on rie des idées religieuses, ou qu'on les vénère, n'importe : elles ne forment pas moins, vraies ou fausses, la base unique de toutes les institutions durables.

For a moment I envied them their religion. They were lucky to have something they could all believe in together.

The difference between God and a US senator? God doesn't think he's a senator.

JESUS LOVES YOU—EVERYONE ELSE THINKS YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE

Upon that basis the first Grand Lodge was founded, and upon that basis Masonry rests today-holding that a unity of spirit is better than a uniformity of opinion, and that beyond the great and simple "religion in which all men agree" no dogma is worth a breach of charity

Love, compassion, and peace do not belong to any religion or tradition. They are qualities in each one of us, qualities of our hearts and minds..

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

In their religious quest men and women-- especially those who live in modern Western Christianized societies-- are still in the power of those early traditions that strive within them for supremacy. It is a conflict of pagan or Christian beliefs, or, one might say, of rebirth or resurrection.