Quotes About Religion

I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me it was a choice, one of many options. To others it was what women did. We were supposed to breed. It had been decided for us. Society expected it. Religion demanded it.

I'm told I was born at dawn. The priest in the church, the maulvi in the mosque, the Hindu monks in the dharamshala prayed for me. An early overdose of religion, which might explain why I turned out to be an atheist.

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

God does not believe in our God.

I have no religion,' says Borneau, 'but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.' Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I don't know if God exists, but it would certainly be better for his reputation if he didn't

We have regressed to the times of the wars of religion; divided, betrayed, threatened if we do not think as the others think or if we refuse to use the same formulas and cry the same watchwords. And tomorrow, ready to kill each other in the name of free will. Refusing to consider the realities he finds disagreeable, each adversary blinds himself with his own convictions and no longer considers those that might help him to comprehend the problem.

any given system is as good as the next. First, we call it Christianity, then democracy, and now we call it the Method. Always claiming an absolute truth, always wanting absolute Good, and always foisting itself on the rest of the world. It's all religion.

Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. Der Spieltrieb ersetzt die Religiosität, beherrscht die Börse, die Politik, die Gerichtssäle, die Pressewelt, und er ist es, der uns seit Gottes Tod mental am Leben hält.

Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...].

Inzwischen glaubte Linda, dass das menschliche Schicksal nicht an Gott, sondern am Grundbesitz hing. Transzendentale Obdachlosigkeit war keine Folge des Religionsverlusts, sondern der Inflation von Mietwohnungen. Sie war stolz darauf, mit ihrer großen, heruntergekommenen Villa ein Bollwerk gegen den Zeitgeist zu errichten.

Modesty is not a religion in itself but rather a twofold act of the will for God's glorification. Therefore we must work towards and possess a well-formed conscience, practice prudence and try to live a life of holiness, which the Church calls Christians to do anyway.

The Catholic Faith is not man-centered but Christ-centered and has always been so. It is for man but always points to God, not to man. This mindset greatly aids one, especially in one's spiritual life, even concerning that of modesty.

The spectacular torchlight processions and pagan festivals that formed such a prominent feature of the Third Reich were naturally much remarked on by foreigners. Some were repelled but others thought them a splendid expression of Germany's new-found confidence. To many it seemed that National Socialism had displaced Christianity as the national religion. Aryan supremacy underpinned by Blut und Boden [blood and soil] was now the people's gospel, the Führer their saviour.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

donde tantos amigos había hecho, porque al cabo los hombres eran hombres, no importaba a qué Dios rezaran.

Siempre he pensado que si hay algo que el Todopoderoso no perdonará a los hombres es que maten en su nombre. No se puede imponer la fe con la fuerza de la sangre derramada. A la fe se ha de llegar a través de la razón.

Hasta para no creer en Dios se tiene una idea de Dios

me parece absurdo que los hombres nos peleemos por creer que el Dios al que rezamos es mejor que el Dios de los otros.

Nunca he permitido que ni la tierra ni la religión marcaran mi identidad. Sólo soy un hombre que quiere vivir en paz, no importa dónde.

Algún día, Samuel, a nadie le preguntarán en qué cree o a quién reza, y todos los hombres seremos iguales.

Interpretamos a Dios según nuestra cultura, el medio en que hemos nacido, en el que nos hemos desenvuelto, pero Dios es el mismo, y desde luego lo que es una monstruosidad es matar en nombre de Dios.