Quotes About Religion

were suddenly up for discussion. In all sorts of ways, the American society of the 1950s was in a state of fermentation: black citizens wanted equal rights; students and artists were experimenting in a bid to find alternatives to the consumer society; conservatives were carrying out experiments of their own in an attempt to hold on to their religion and traditions; and women had begun to realise they were suffocating in the pretty-pretty life of the suburbs.

Man worships the idols he himself creates. But not those that God has made.

Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.

Religious fanatics are the worst. They're basically impossible to bargain with, they accept no outside opinion about anything, and they departed from reality well before you met them.

Original Sin has great marketing potential.

Heaven built on earth by human hands is not the same as eternal life. Again, Christianity always has to be more than a cultural religion.

It appears that having a close walk with the Lord is not religiously acceptable.

As someone wise once told me, 'Messiahs are good, but scripture is better.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. Gene Roddenberry

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Christianity has both spurred and retarded the sciences and social sciences. Indeed, most of the modern debates of profound significance were originally dialogues with or within Christianity.

But Cristes loore and his apostles twelveHe taughte, but first he folwed it hymselve.

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

Faith is an act whereby they learn their God.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.

Why not have a God in your back pocket for when you need Him? That's all most of them mean by 'Christian.

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }