Quotes About Religion

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

I'm a religious man. I believe in God.

Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.

I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create.

Religious people are happier.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but a growing number are doing just that.

If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.

I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.

I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person.

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.