Quotes About Religion

'Greenleaf' never mocks religion. It reminds us that people in churches are human, and no one is perfect.

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

I do not think so that it is possible for anybody to remove the saffron flag.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.

Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.

I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.

Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.

All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.

I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.