Quotes About Religion

I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

My father was very outwardly religious.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.

I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

I had to learn to navigate the political and religious currents in a state where Mormonism dominates despite not being Mormon.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

I have a very deep religious belief.

There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.