Quotes About Religion

I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

slavery was a worldwide institution, entrenched on every inhabited continent, subjugating people of every color, language, and religion

Anyone who seeks to help others—whether by means of religion or by means of medicine—must eschew the use of force.

Psikiyatrda [aliénist] olduÄŸu gibi rahipte de, her zaman sorgu yarg?c?ndan bir ÅŸeyler vard?r. –Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

T?bbîleÅŸtirme sekülerleÅŸtirmenin bir yan?d?r, terapötik devlet (t?p ile devletin ittifak?) teolojik devletin (kilise ile devletin ittifak?) yerini al?r. Geleneksel olarak, günah diye s?n?fland?r?lan belli davran??lar hastal?k ÅŸeklinde yeniden tan?mlan?r, böylece bunlar?n zor yoluyla "tedavi"leri gerekçe bulur.

Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.

We are critical of the priests who burned the paper books of the Aztecs because contemporary Europe looked down upon the non-Christian Americans and wanted to destroy their heathen beliefs. But we ourselves have so little esteem for these same beliefs that although the most important ones were recorded by the early Spaniards, we reject them as the fables of primitive nations.

For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.

Dobbins shrugged his shoulders. What's serious? I was a kid. This thing is, I believed in God and all that, but it wasn't the religious part that interested me. Just being nice to people, that's all. Being decent.

Our God was made by men, sculptured by savages who did the best they could. They made our God somewhat like themselves, and gave to him their passions, their ideas of right and wrong.

If religion had any effect on his character at all, it made him more cruel and hateful.

People are all imitations of monkeys Gods are all imitations of humans

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day's final salaat. That was in Allah's

Torquemada seats.

Christianity—and Judaism, and Islam, which were also religions of The Book—required

I am pro-Israel. I want the best for the Israelis, and that includes keeping the land that is rightfully theirs. I am pro-Arab. I want the best for the Arabs, and that includes overcoming radical Islam, the religion that makes killing the ultimate answer for everything.

Although historians often describe Akhenaten as a monotheist, that wasn't exactly right; he believed other gods existed. They just didn't hold a candle to Aten. Aten was something special, something fundamental to the nature of reality itself. This belief in the supremacy of one god over other gods is generally called henotheism

As one Saudi professor sternly tells his co-religionists, "Only the writings of a practising Muslim are worthy of our attention.

We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don't.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?