Quotes About Religion

One of the things Jesus did was to step aside from the organized religion of his time because it had become corrupt and bogged down with rules. Rules became more important than feeding the hungry.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?

one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom--the Church.

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

I have never hid my spiritual roots. They just weren't something that came under the spotlight.