Quotes About Religion

I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don't practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life.

I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen.

I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

That's what I love about Australia: we can do things the way we want to do them, because that's the way our country is - no matter what culture you come from, you can come to Australia and practise your religion, you can practise your beliefs, and you shouldn't be judged for it.

I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

Environmentalism is the powerful new secular religion and politically correct scientists are its high priests, rescuing the planet from the apocalypse of climate change, as the Doomsday clock ticks down.

I'm an atheist. I don't have a religion.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I have faith, but I'm not the biggest fan of organised religion. There's a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.