Quotes About Religion

I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she's the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.

For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

Spiritually, I'm Jewish.

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.

As long as I did the good things associated with religion, I thought I was in good shape spiritually, too.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

I mean, Princess Margaret had me officially informed by the master of the household that she wouldn't speak to me until I changed my religion. That was not personal. We'd only met for five minutes. That was historical. She never spoke to me in 25 years. We were always very polite to one another, but we didn't speak.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.