Quotes About Religion

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.

Reformed Jews don't have to quite believe in God.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human - not fanatical, which is something that I don't appreciate at all. I learned to become a humanist and not to dwell on the differences between Jews and Christians.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.

I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.

I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

I'm glad many Jews attend Knick games.

When I see ultra-Orthodox Jews stamping all over Jaffa, or when I see them deciding who is a Jew, I think: 'What's happened to the grand dream of Zionism?' I don't like to see ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel. What's wrong with Manchester?

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

Bridges join places that were separated. They are built for the sake of progress and for the average citizen. They even have a religious dimension. Even the word 'religious' comes from the Latin, meaning 'creating a link.'

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I do a joke in my stand-up where I say I'm a Christian, but I'm not a Christian comedian. I think that's definitely how I see my acting. I'm an actor who happens to be a Christian.

I've just never been a person that was political or religiously savvy. Except for the fact that I was born Jewish. That gives me 10 circumcision jokes.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.