Quotes About Religion

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.

The God of this planet was not worth the religion.

he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he care about somebody he never met?

religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?

our desire to stay in control forces us to pay the highest price imaginable - letting our relationship with God gradually grow cold. Before long, we become mechanical and lose all sense of passion in serving the Lord. We can go through the motions, but our lives become hollow and our faith degenerates into mere surface religion.

Do you believe in Jesus? Jesse looks at me so brown-eyed it hurts.He nods."I do," he says. I sit up. "I think you look like him.

Thank you, Carol Lynn Pearson, for reminding us that the task of any religion is to teach us whom we're required to love, not whom we're entitled to hate. - Rabbi Harold Kushner

After my first book was published, I received an envelope full of religious material from a fan who wanted to save my soul. That's when I knew I was on to something.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Religions centered on the worship of a male God create "moods" and "motivations" that keep women in a state of psychological dependence on men and male authority, while at the same legitimating the political and social authority of fathers and sons in the institutions of society.

If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

Much of the appeal of dogma in religion is that it gives its followers rules to follow that rescue them from having to find out who they are and what they really think.

I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing.

When the Marchese de Caracciolo wrote to the King of Naples that in England he had discovered a country of '22 religions and two sauces', these were not words of praise.

A group of Puritans, persecuted in England because of their religion

Formal religion only takes us so far — for it is both safe and doable. Love, however, knows no limits, takes costly risks, and looks for ways to give more.

Why is it that STUPIDITY is not one of the Deadly Sins?

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.