Quotes About Religion

But I knew that we had really met, she the Catholic from Eastern Europe, I the Protestant from the West. There on the crowded tramway platform we had met as Christians.

But bit by bit as I got to know Yugoslavia better, I became aware of the slow wearing-down process the government was exerting on Christians. The effort seemed to be centered on the children. Leave the old folks alone, but wean the young people away from the church.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

I made this my business as much all the day long as at the appointed times of prayer; for at all times, every hour, every minute, even in the height of my business, I drove away from my mind everything that was capable of interrupting my thought of GOD. Such has been my common practice ever since I entered in religion; and, though I have done it very imperfectly, yet I have found great advantages by it.

the whole substance of religion was faith, hope and charity;

From that day on I clearly understood that the kingdom of God can never mix with politics. The ultimate, stated aim of Marxist teaching is the complete eradication of all religion. The pure bride of Christ can never be controlled by an atheistic government or led by men who hate God!

In a recent national survey, 24 percent of respondents identified themselves as "spiritual but not religious," meaning that nearly one-quarter of citizens surveyed have "combined diverse beliefs and practices into a personal faith that fits no standard definition.

The world is full of questions. Whether the topic is politics, race, relationships, the environment, or religion (especially religion), there seem to be more questions than answers.

Un marabutto smise di pregare per interrogarmi. "Esiste un popolo chiamato mericani?" chiese. "Sì". "Dicono che hanno visitato la luna". "E' vero". "Sono blasfemi".

When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.

Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.

Chrystus jest komiwoja?erem, p?atnym agentem wyzyskiwaczy.

There was a plan for him to return to the ring at WrestleMania X-Seven, but personal issues again put a stop to that. At some point, he found religion and cleaned himself up. The match planned for WrestleMania was moved to the 2002 SummerSlam.

It is no accident that both of the substitutes for religion that Hoffer names—nationalism and social revolution—are political. Political/economic ideology is the religion of modernity. Like the adherents of traditional religion, many people find comfort in their political worldview, and greet critical questions with pious hostility.50 Instead of crusades or inquisitions, the twentieth century had its notorious totalitarian movements.

T]he superstitions to be feared in the present day are much less religious than political; and of all the forms of idolatry I know none more irrational and ignoble than this blind worship of mere numbers. —William Lecky, Democracy and Liberty

What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon/Teutonic racial superiority over

Oh, they don't allow the Bible in Heaven, Miss Mary...It contains far too much sex and violence.

Man is a religious being; the heart instinctively seeks for a God. Whether he worships on the banks of the Ganges, prays with his face upturned to the sun, kneels toward Mecca or, regarding all space as a temple, communes with the Heavenly Father according to the Christian creed, man is essentially devout.

Deneulin and Bano drive home the point that for these religious traditions "there is no separation between religion and development. Development is what adherents to a religion do because of who they are and what they believe in" (2009, 4-5).

Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.

Some places have religion. Here we have safety drills.

Often dogma masks a lack of true faith, so I can't say that it interests me much.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds; and they must be tolerated in an admixture of it in some trifling or enthusiastic shape or other; else you will deprive weak minds of a resource found necessary to the strongest.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.