Quotes About Religion

Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.

Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.

Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'

Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.

Being raised by a Catholic father, a Protestant mother, and marrying the Muslim father of my three children, I encourage people to respect and at least try to understand different religions.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

If you take a cold, blunt view of most religions, and you sort of say, 'Well, here's the basis for it,' most of them sound crazy. It's the belief that makes them real. I was interested in that question: When does a belief become a myth? When does something you believe in become just a story?

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.

My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions.

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.

All organized religions are basically the same.

Religions based on the principle of service and a focus on the less fortunate help a society deal with want.

I am a believer in god, but I have not restricted myself to one religion. I have experienced many religions.

India is the country which makes the maximum number of movies. Cinema is one of our religions.

I don't know whether or not it's good that we embrace all religions. We are no longer Christians - nevertheless a knowledge of God should still be important for Europeans.

Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost identical.

I study the Koran intensively, but I also study other religions, too. But it is in the Koran that the prophets are closest to me - there and in the mosque when I go to pray.

Most cultures believe, and most religions believe, that there is a spirit, there is a soul, there is something that happens when we die where this spirit leaves our body.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.