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Quotes About Religion

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
~ Lionel Blue
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.
~ Marianne Williamson
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."
~ Andrew Sullivan
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
~ Janet Suzman
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.
~ Robert Neelly Bellah
The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.
~ Jim Al-Khalili
One cannot remember mother and forget God.
~ Thomas S. Monson
My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?
~ Anne Waldman
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
~ Oriana Fallaci
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
~ H. L. Mencken
My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.
~ Emma Bonino
No one will ever be the servant of the Son without serving the Mother.
~ Ildefonsus
First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.
~ Geri Halliwell
I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.
~ Sidney Poitier
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
~ Leverett Saltonstall
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
~ Anne Lamott
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
~ Patricia Cornwell
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
~ Johann Lamont
I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.
~ Michael McMillian
We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.
~ Kevin Sessums
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
~ Mitch Albom