Quotes About Religion

Dónde íbamos? ¿En qué estábamos? Girando en redondo con su planeta Tierra y su país Colombia, Colombia la católica, apostólica y romana: venal, tramposa, envidiosa, secuestradora, traidora, mezquina, asesina, dañina, corrupta, impune, pirómana, ladrona, loca. En lo cual era injusto pues no fue Colombia la que decidió por él sino el destino. Colombia es corpórea, una tierra, un país; el destino, un viento fatuo.

Un cardenal afeminado no es un Príncipe de la Iglesia, es un travesti, y su sotana una bata: así la siente.

Dios no existe y si existe es la gran gonorrea.

Y Cristo dónde está? ¿El puritano rabioso que sacó a fuete a los mercaderes del templo? ¿Es que la cruz lo curó de rabietas, y ya no ve ni oye ni huele?

No lo quiso Alá, que es lo contrario de ojalá, que quiere decir, «quiera Alá». Esta interjección la debería usar Benedicto XVI de rodillas con el trasero al aire y mirando a La Meca a ver si se le calman los musulmanes.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

It's not what we eat or don't eat that makes us good people; it's how we treat one another. As you grow older, you'll find that people of every religion think they're the best, but that's not true. There are good and bad people in every religion. Just because someone is Muslim, Jewish, or Christian doesn't mean a thing. You have to look and see what's in their hearts. That's the only thing that matters, and that's the only detail God cares about.

The bible is foreign to me, but its concepts are not. My father always said that hatred is a waste and never an option. He learned this growing up in Ahwaz, Iran, in a Muslim household. I have tried my best to pass the same message to my children, born and raised in the United States. Ultimately, it doesn't matter where we learn that lesson. It's just important that we do.

even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

His Grace called Virginius in and said: "Do you think a priest of the Anglican Communion should be a divorced man with two wives living?" That's the way he talks. And do you know what Virginius said? He said: "Your Grace, if it weren't for divorce, there wouldn't be an Anglican Communion.

Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear.

for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Than the socialists say that we don't want an religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Than they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Law Is Force Since the law organizes justice, the socialists ask why the law should not also organize labor, education, and religion. Why should not law be used for these purposes? Because it could not organize labor, education, and religion without destroying justice. We must remember that law is force, and that, consequently, the proper functions of the law cannot lawfully extend beyond the proper functions of force.

You say, "Here are men who are wanting in morality or religion," and you apply to the law; but law is force, and need I say how far it is a violent and absurd enterprise to introduce force in these matters?

the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful.

quando se tenta fazer a lei religiosa, fraternal, igualitária, filantrópica, industrial, literária, artística, logo se atinge o infinito, o incerto, o desconhecido, a utopia imposta ou, o que é pior, uma infinidade de utopias em luta para apossar-se da lei e se impor. Pois a fraternidade e a filantropia, ao contrário da justiça, não têm limites fixos. Onde pararão? Onde parará a lei?

Giordano Bruno was to take the bolder course of maintaining that the magical Egyptian religion of the world was not only the most ancient but also the only true religion, which both Judaism and Christianity had obscured and corrupted.

He and his fellow pastors attacked the public schools for teaching "immorality" and "secular humanism." But what bothered pious members of his congregation was not just that the public schools taught wrong answers; it was that they did not protect children from information that might call their beliefs into question.

The idea that individuals should collect evidence and decide for themselves was out of the question. Once Falwell told his congregation that to read anything but the Bible and certain prescribed works of interpretation was at best a waste of time.

No, from what you say your father was an atheist, an out-and-out unbeliever. Atheism will see your head spiked on a church spire just as soon as Birdcatchery." Mosca was silent for a few moments. "But, Mr. Clent," she said at last, "what if he was right? What if it's true?