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Quotes About Religion

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)
~ Ramakrishna
Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Once you see the drivers in Indonesia you understand why religion plays such a part in their lives.
~ Erma Bombeck
He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
~ Spalding Gray
As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
~ Terry Eagleton
Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.
~ William Morley Punshon
I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.
~ Lionel Richie
Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.
~ James G. Watt
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
~ Tacitus
Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.
~ John Remsburg
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All religions are branches of one big tree.
~ George Harrison
Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.
~ John Lamb Lash
I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!
~ Richard Jeni
I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.
~ Jonathan Raymond
When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the southern hemisphere, covering the Christmas tree with fake snow even though winter has nothing to do with the birth of Christ.
~ Paulo Coelho
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.
~ Danny Meyer
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.
~ Daniel Boone
Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
~ Karl Barth