Quotes About Religion

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

Christianity is not a religion. Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ.

You can laugh at Christianity, you can mock it and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. I should say Jesus Christ changes lives. Christianity is not a religion; it's not a system; it's not an ethical idea; it's not a psychological phenomenon. It's a person. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

This is what God has done for us: He has said, "I forgive you." But he paid the price for the forgiveness himself through the Cross. It's a payment that Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius, or any other religious or ethical leader cannot offer. No one can pay the price by "just living a good life." I know it sounds exclusive to say it, but we must say it simply because it is true: There is no other way but Jesus.

the value of Christian faith is not in the one believing, but in the One who is believed in, its object.

I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.

if I'd have to convert. It would upset my parents, but at least it would upset both of them equally. Dad would feel I'd chosen a form of Christianity, and Mimmy would be equally certain that I hadn't.

was this theater or Judaism? Or just an unconscious attempt to bring the cramped city-apartment ambience back to our holidays?

equality ends with the Creation, and that all attempts to enshrine this equality in our government and enforce it through legislation must be treated as abominations to G-d [sic] that verge on Sovietism"…

The girls had a misguided trust in the circumcised.

The history of every people is also a history of its craziness, and the more science becomes a religion, the more religion must pretend to be a science, desperate for all logical explanations.

Same church, different assumptions.

Freedom of religion in America is all fine and good until you start believing in nothing, and then it is a crime to be punished.' " "Is

Well, that started me on the path out. I realized my religious tradition couldn't account for everything, not even everything sacred.

The romanticization of nature was idol worship, he inveighed, the deification of the created over the Creator.

From time to time he consulted books about Islamic jurisprudence, the fikh, in his own collection when confronted with thorny problems in his marriage and his work. But religion did not play a major role in his life. What drove him most was a belief in the power of the written word—the rich variety of human experience and ideas contained between the covers of a book.

He asked me to prepare semolina for forty people, saying that they were workers at his farm," his mother remembered. "In fact they were Islamists, but I could not refuse them.

I was caught between the crossfire of the atheist school and a Baptist church and family. Both had a prescription for how I was supposed to think and behave. On most points, they actually agreed. I was supposed to be clean, have short hair, talk modestly, listen and obey, never fight. Consequently, I was slovenly, grew long hair, and fought every day.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

The shift in the landscape of religious belief and practice is nothing less than a shift in worldview. People are changing the way they think about religion and religious practice, who is "us" and who is "them," and whether such distinctions make sense in a global, interdependent environment. Wayne

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

La fe es creer en lo que sabemos que no existe»

Por esa época, José Cadalso Vásquez escribe: <>. Se refiere, por supuesto, a la vigilancia impuesta por la Santa Inquisición sobre el intelecto — y la sexualidad—de los españoles — y también de los americanos—

Tolstói había comenzado a comportarse como una Iglesia de un solo hombre: como toda iglesia, había llegado a temer o detestar el sexo; como toda Iglesia, había llegado a la conclusión de que no hay vida posible fuera de la fe. También como toda Iglesia, había llegado a considerar la desgracia personal como una bendición, y a agradecerla.