Quotes About Religion

Jean Paul Sartre: "I needed God . . . I reached out for religion, I longed for it, it was the remedy. Had it been denied me, I would have invented it myself.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON

Why do we say, "That's true for you but not for me," when we're talking about morality or religion, but we never even think of such nonsense when we're talking to a stock broker about our money or a doctor about our health?

We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God's sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not.

if there is no God, everything is lawful

religious pluralism—the belief that all religions are true.

regardless of what the real truth is concerning religion and morality, our lives are greatly affected by it today and perhaps even in eternity.

doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

I had long ago learned, sometimes to my sorrow, that Scottish piety is accompanied by a complete foreknowledge of sin. That's what we mean by original sin—we don't have to do it to know about it.

Religion has no major relevance for the teachings of the Noble Eightfold Path. It might even act as a distraction. At its best, it reminds us of the deep things in life, but life ought to do that already. We

Anybody who changes their religion does so because they haven't understood their own", he responded to my surprise. He then took down a copy of the Bible and turned to the first pages of Genesis. He then read out a verse "Do not bite off the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?

outlining how certain fans of 'NSYNC like to imagine Justin Timber lake getting fisted by Lance Bass. Glenn Dixon surmised that much of the Contemporary Christian genre is driven by artists who literally want to fuck Jesus Christ.

One of the things they desired most desperately was freedom of religion, based on the premise that Europe wasn't religious enough.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. –GEORGE WASHINGTON

Someone has said, "If you squeeze a lemon, you should get lemon juice. If you squeeze an orange, you should get orange juice. If you squeeze a Christian, you should get Christ.

There are no other religious books on planet earth that have the audacity to hang their track record on their ability to predict the future. Only the Bible is 20/20, on target, and always has been. You can prove the Bible is true by what it says and what has happened.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you'd be ruined. Overdosed on information.

That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO