Quotes About Religion

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

Although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. I could stand with my family or with the gentiles... but there was no foothold in between.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

We used to build our cities and towns around churches. Now banks are at the centers of our densely populated areas.

ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.

I went to St. James Methodist Church in Clinton, a segregated church on the other side of the tracks.

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.