Quotes About Religion

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.

I was raised in an intensely religious household and I think the influence shows through my music.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

As I see it, religion shouldn't interfere in a relationship.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

Anne Hutchinson's greatest crime, and the source of her power, was the series of weekly public meetings she held at her house to discuss Scripture and theology.

Life, more life, a larger, richer, more satisfying life, is in the last analysis the end of religion,

instead of those broad blind alleys which philosophy showed us, a certain type of mind has always discerned three strait and narrow ways going out towards the Absolute. In religion, in pain, and in beauty-

More complete in their grasp of experience than the votaries of intellect or of sense, they accept as central for life those spiritual messages which are mediated by religion, by beauty, and by pain.

We seem to be ready to go to war at the loss of our right to own a gun but yet we sit back quietly at the loss of our right to worship our God as we see fit.

Evgeni Kostitsyn doesn't go to church here in America because he's "afraid to be molested".

The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him. As well blame me for . . . for all the bunk in vers libre.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

I always say that Religion and Politics are just clever ways to make un-content people content with their un-contentedness.

The so-called War on Terror was, in reality, a War using Religion, or the intensity of religious feelings of populations.

Faith in a lord, a cap for the fool.

Alyce asks about my religion ... she listens without interruption. Then she tells me what she believes, and I listen. I see nothing wrong with listening to each other's beliefs. I want to know about her religion, just as she wants to know about mine. We can talk about our beliefs without pushing each other to feel wrong.

This country was built by refugees. And yet look how it has advanced, look how it has developed! ... Here, where people from many cultures, many religions, and many parts of the planet have come together, they have built such an advanced society. It amazes me. ... Why has America done so well?