Quotes About Religion

Some of the finest comedies have chosen the Church as its subject and would indeed make most Christians laugh, give or take the occasional wince as a barb goes home. I have very fond memories of 'Our Man at St Marks' and long for the day when it is released on DVD but I won't hold my breath.

I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up with has very little to do with Christ, really, and more an institutions that have built up around the church.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan.

Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.