Quotes About Religion

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?