Quotes About Religion

I do not say that there is no glory to be gained [in war]; but it is not personal glory. In itself, no cause was ever more glorious than that of men who struggle, not to conquer territory, not to gather spoil, not to gratify ambition, but for freedom, for religion, for hearth and home, and to revenge the countless atrocities inflicted upon them by their oppressors.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.

I already explained this. I don't like you. True, I don't like most people, but I especially dislike you. I could start my own religion based on how much I dislike you.

It is a war of religion as much as a war for power.

For some, religion is a law, a guidance, a direction; for others - a policeman.

Gerçek dinin ölüm üzerine bir meditasyon de?il, hayat üzerine bir meditasyon olmas? gerekti?ini (oradan) ö?rendim.

Nici un cuvânt nu a acoperit atât de bine ca "religie" dubla semantic? a lui "pharmakon": leac ?i otrav?.

Credin?a nu este, nu a fost ?i nu va fi niciodat? o virtute.

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

And then, despite the fact that A.J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore." - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.

Any woman refusing to take part in a patriarchal religion was considered a witch in those times. In your grandmother's, they couldn't hang anyone, but they could still frown down on them.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.

The agnostic has a very curious notion of religion. He is convinced that a man who says 'I believe in God' should at once become perfect; if this does not happen, then the believer must be a fraud and a hypocrite. He thinks that adherence to a religion is the end of the road, whereas it is in fact only the beginning of a very long and sometimes very rough road. He looks for consistency in religious people, however aware he may be of inconsistencies in himself

and art instead of God, she often complained that she'd

Theology is prose, but liturgy is poetry.

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.