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Quotes About Religion

There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man; Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the life of Life, began.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
"Be ye Good Boys, go seek for Heav'en, come pay the priest that holds the key;" So spake, and speaks, and aye shall speak the last to enter Heaven, he.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
~ Sir Thomas Beecham
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
I dare, without usurpation, assume the honorable style of a Christian.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Jesus loves you... He's not 'in love' with you.
~ Jimmy Carr
I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.
~ Kelly Preston
I believe in God.....I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much.....I believe in God and love God.
~ Michael Jackson
It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.
~ August Strindberg
Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
~ Bernie Siegel
In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'
~ Bill Maher
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
~ Blaise Pascal
Every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Savior loves you and loves the person whose hand is in yours.
~ Clayton Christensen
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
~ E. O. Wilson
I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.
~ Elizabeth Berg
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.
~ George Carlin
I love talking about Scientology.
~ Giovanni Ribisi
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
~ James Anthony Froude