Quotes About Religion

When my mom was alive, I'd gone to church more often. She'd told me once that she didn't believe that any one religion was doing it right, but that she was open to the fact that there might be a higher power. Sometimes she felt it at church, sometimes she'd felt it on the ocean" -Lucy

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

Other people had religion to give them a connection to eternity, and good luck to them, but religion was too narrow for her, too unforgiving, too literal. Literature encompassed everything, forbade nothing, endorsed nothing. Writers, like scientists, had the greatest respect for the world as it truly was. Their job wasn't to judge but to examine, to experiment, draft after draft, century after century.

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

You can call the spirits that live in the pools and trees God's grace if you like, old man. But if Jesus were from this land he'd be putting milk out for the fairies himself.

Patriarchal religion and ethics tend to lump the female and sex together as if the whole burden of the onus and stigma it attaches to sex were the fault of the female alone. Thereby sex, which is known to be unclean, sinful, and debilitating, pertains to the female, and the male identity is preserved as a human, rather than a sexual one.

Love has been the opium of women, like religion by the masses. While we loved, men ruled.

But Herr Wiesenthal, I'm Catholic." "Miss Moran, the Church can be very dangerous when it feels threatened.

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

Gonzaga were aware of, though seemingly undisturbed by, the rise of a strong merchant class financially outreaching the aristocracy, the hordes of Protestants in the north; and the renewed ambition and drive of the king of France.

though he's wrong about how these methods work. It's religion—facts don't matter, especially when the facts involve women's liberty.

You can't really trust any man who is religious. If your interests conflict with the religion the man breaks his word and betrays you and thinks he's right to do so.

But far more than the Jewish quarter or the bestequipped monastery, the cleanest corner of early medieval Europe was Arab Spain. Unlike in Christianity, cleanliness was an important religious requirement for the Muslim, and a ninth-century observer described the Andalusian Arabs as "the cleanest people on earth.

One of the English advantages when it came to hygiene, they theorized, was their religion: since Protestants (in their view) did not share their Catholic prudery about nudity, washing the body could be more straightforward and more thorough.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

I'm always intrigued by the different ways people decide what to believe. I mean, look at this -- they're taken from all over the place. Celtic knots, Eastern philosophy, the New Age. Past and present collapsed into a buffet of equivalent options all in pursuit of the divine.

That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.

Si a priori l'Occident a besoin de l'Orient traditionnel, celui-ci a besoin a posteriori de l'Occident qui a été à son école. "Sur les traces de la religion pérenne

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.