Quotes About Religion

My mother was an introvert and quite religious. And we were brought up in the church. And when she learned that I wanted to act, she simply said: 'You cannot live here and do that.'

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of nationhood? In each other? Even that has been complicated. It feels like there's a total collapse of trust, but without trust, it's impossible to have any sense of who one is.

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.

So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can only push it so far.

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Government should give citizenship to anyone irrespective of religion.

Deep down in my heart and what I've seen and what I've been around, there is nothing better than Islam.

Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe.

I was always inclined towards learning more about Islam.

Islam is something we can't afford any more.

Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

Islam and the Constitution are in clear conflict.

To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.

The truth is that Islam is not like any other faith. It is the religious equivalent of fascism.

We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.