Quotes About Religion

Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

On the other hand, Napoleon once dismissed religion as "what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." Meaning, without the fear of God—or literally the hell we might have to pay—the rest of us would just take what we wanted.

But what if someone from another faith won't recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it? "That is not faith. That is hate." He sighed. "And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens

Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?

Most religions warn against war, yet more wars have been fought over religion than perhaps anything else.

The Christian Church,' he went on, 'tries to pretend it doesn't exist. But other religions aren't so coy – the ancient religions, I mean, the ones born out of passion and intelligence, an understanding of the earth and the way the seasons move, not the ones spread and imposed through politics and imperialism.

Nazi kitsch may bear a blood relationship to the highbrow religion of art proclaimed by many moderns.

No believer is a bad believer.

If you don't pray," he said, lowering his voice, "why do you wear it?" They were sitting at a table for two by a window, overlooking snarled traffic on the street below. Their phones rested screens-down between them, like the weapons of desperadoes at a parley. She smiled. Took a sip. And spoke, the lower half of her face obscured by her cup. "So men don't fuck with me," she said.

Armed college students were telling women to cover their heads.

The self we create is a fiction. On this point, religion and cognitive neuroscience converge. When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as the television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate.

ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.

Harriet, an atheist, was championing the rights of true believers. She could argue anything, any position. Yasmin—despite her sinking feeling—admired the way Harriet's mind darted, her panoramic intellect, her insatiable curiosity. Ma and Baba had a new thought only once a decade. That was probably an overestimate. Their views never changed. Baba had no time for religion and now was the time for him to say so out loud. Come on, Baba! Speak!

Religion, Pat had said to me and then I had repeated it to Charlotte, was for people who needed to believe that death was better than life.

The power that created me would not have given me such a capacity for feeling pleasure if I weren't meant to use it, Evleen whispered to the man who sat rapt beneath her touch. Your religion wants dominion over our bodies because sex is the one ecstasy they can't control, and they are threatened by any rapture other than that they offer.

I have done what mourning I had to do already; I have no desire to give over more days of my life to satisfy conventions that are not mine. I am of the old religion, Grania; we do not believe in death. And so we do not allow it to triumph over life and twist and torture the living. There is...lifework to be done here.

Do you have a concept of hell in your religion?" Bilbow asked. Prabhupada paused briefly. "This is hell," he said matter-of-factly. "London is hell. It's always cold, damp, rainy and cloudy. In India the sun always shines." He beamed at his questioner.

Inter-denominational violence' is generally based upon the essentially atheistic greed for more land, power, and money.

Extremist individuals live inside every single group on the planet. Devout followers from Christian to Muslim who kill in the name of God, down to people who perpetuate a cycle of abuse from parent to child. And do you know at what point they're labeled terrorists? Martini said. When the government-- When the news reports it. . . .

There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved spinsterhood with voyages of discovery into new ideas and energetic practices in art and social welfare, education or religion.

Je?li chcesz wychowa? zagorza?ego ateist?, musisz udziela? mu surowych lekcji religii. To zawsze owocuje dobrymi skutkami.

We are warriors of Allah." "You are thugs with Korans.

spiritual Christians no longer wish affiliation with the ways of Fundamentalism, which often leaves the individual empty handed and with an empty heart.

A follower of the teachings of Christ is a Christian, not a person who attends a specific Organized Church.