Quotes About Religion

In the end she'd decided it wasn't God she questioned so much as His organized believers.

If some people want to believe in Jesus, or Mohammed, or Buddha, or their ancestors, who is to say which is right and which wrong? It seems to me that most of the religions in the world are too dogmatic. They preach the 'live and let live' philosophy, but rarely do they practise it.

In the great spiritual traditions of the world, attachments are seen as any concerns that usurp our desire for love, anything that becomes more important to us than God. Paul Tillich said that whatever we are ultimately concerned with is God for us. At any given moment, that with which we are most concerned is most likely to be something other than the true God. No matter how religious we may think we are, our addictions are always capable of usurping our concern for God.

Mussolini's insistence on public morality, belief in the inferior role of women, and the ban on contraception and abortion made the fascists palatable to the church.85

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic.

Why is there an "is"? Why is there something rather than nothing? For that answer both science and religion must turn to the metaphysical.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously for the right of a woman to wear that covering, if it is what she wants and believes in. Ayatollah Khomeini and Jacques Chirac have much more in common than either of them would care to acknowledge. Each tried to solve overarching social problems by imposing his will on the bodies of women.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

To undo a Jew is charity, and not sin.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish, would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

I am an atheist. I don't believe in Zeus.

I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.