Quotes About Religion

Radical Islam cannot be accommodated. It cannot be appeased.

An utter and complete tyrant, her face only melted at Mass, a ritual she clearly loved.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Dios es concebido de distintas formas dependiendo del desarrollo personal de los creyentes y según su contexto cultural.

Ici on croit en Dieu. Et c'est pas le curé qui nous en empêchera. Il sait seulement pas à quoi ça sert, Dieu.

Quand vous leur dites C'est une église et pas un arrosoir !..., je defaillis. Positif. Quel talent, mon curé, quel talent ! Et Dieu n'aime pas le sainfoin. Quel art !

I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations' ~George O'dowd

To tell you the truth, Father, I don't think God has a favorite football team, or a favorite religion.

Bismillah al rahman al Rahim," he replied. In the name of God, most Gracious, most Compassionate. Harvath knew the phrase. Every chapter in the Quran, except for the ninth, began with it. "Ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illallah," he continued. "Wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan rasulullah." I bear witness that there is no god except Allah. And I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.

The truth was, when it came to Islam, it had been violent since its inception. Its clearly stated goal was worldwide conquest. It was a mandate handed down in all of its religious texts. And while Harvath believed there were peaceful and moderate Muslims, he knew from studying the religion that there was no such thing as peaceful and moderate Islam.

Islam was an honorable religion that was unfortunately rotting from within. Like it or not, the radicals gave all Muslims a bad name. In fact, if blame where to be laid for the modern decay of Islam, the Saudi royal family was the perfect group to begin pointing the finger at. In an attempt to shore up there sovereignty, the Saudi's have helped to promote one of the most radical forms of Islam, which an overwhelming majority of the world's Islamic terrorists followed.

Then there were those media figures who actually tried to put a happy face on Muslim extremism and Sharia law under the banner of cultural diversity. Surely the victims of honor killings, and those beaten and killed for not wearing headscarves, for dating men from outside their faith, or for trying to convert to another religion would strongly disagree.

The fundamentalism that drove them was a cancer. It infected almost everyone it touched. And yet the people best positioned to remove the cancer lacked the courage and the desire to do so. No matter how many atrocities were committed in the name of their religion and their God, the Muslim world was wholly incapable of combating the problem.

His grandmother had brought him up as a good Christian and someone who knew the difference between right and wrong.

We've all become god's madmen, all of us.

Those who are religiously sick believe in the existence of the devil by forgetting the existence of God. A negative mind is the greatest devil that resides within the human being. Transformation of the negativity leads toward positive or angelic visions. It is the mind which creates hell and heaven. Fear of the devil is a phobia which needs to be eradicated from the human mind.

Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the primary, primary again. The secondary activity of obedience to the law of God was always intended to serve the primary activity: to love God and enjoy Him forever. When that is primary, the secondary becomes a labor of love, a joyful, and easy burden to bear. (Matthew 11:28-30

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

In all religions, as in all legal systems. people find ways to skirt the rules. We obey the letter of the law without honoring its spirit, and then reassure ourselves of our righteousness.

In 1820, two years before the Catholic Church began permitting the teaching of heliocentrism

Margaret McDonald, a fifteen-year-old Christian prophet, declared in 1830 that the Antichrist was Robert Owen, a cofounder of socialism.

Besides, what more effective way to put every phony "reincarnated messiah" out of business—and believe me, more and more of them will be cropping up as this century progresses—than to say, and mean, "I've stopped looking for Jesus 'out there,' because I have the peace of knowing he's already right here.

The religion of Islam views animals as a special part of God's creation and generally extols kindness to animals, but like Judaism and Christianity animals are not considered to be the equal of humankind.