Quotes About Religion

They hoped to obtain evidence for the audacious theory that Wasson had developed and that would occupy him until his death: that the religious impulse in humankind had been first kindled by the visions inspired by a psychoactive mushroom.

Unsalted butter is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Sin is geographical.

I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.

Catholics everywhere squirm at the ostentatious piety of Pelosi and her fellow apostate Joe Biden. If they must sin, can they at least keep religion out of it?

If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

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.

There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.

Muhammad Ali was unquestionably one of the greatest boxers of the 20th century and a sincere advocate for his religious beliefs. In his life, he defeated the best professional boxers of his era, some of them more than once, which meant he was easily forgiven the excesses of his ringside braggadocio.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

If you need help, look to clergy who do not spout their own beliefs but direct you in sincerity by using the Bible.

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

When I was a little kid, I used to get in trouble a lot for lying. Being raised religious, I believed that lying was sinful, so I felt guilty.