Quotes About Religion

We need to keep domesticating religion. It's such an unpredictable beast.

Scripture should be accepted as truth by those who believe it is God-inspired. Here's

ALL MEN HAVE a religion or totems of some kind. Even the atheist is committed to an enormous act of faith in his belief that the universe created itself and the subsequent creation of intelligent life was simply a biological accident.

If we get scared enough we can convince ourselves that snake and nape are selective, and that a scarlet cross painted on a shield can make acceptable the beheadings of Saracens on a scaffold in Jerusalem.

There is no equal to poor white trash when they get their hands on a Bible.

There is a subculture in this country that seems to have no antecedent—a conflation of reality television, National Enquirer journalism, fundamentalist religion, militarism, and professional football. At the center is an adoration of celebrity, no matter how it is acquired or in what form it comes. Women

No, I'm a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I've never hit the juice.

In Connecticut we had freedom of religion so you could belong to any church you wanted, unless you were a Papist.

Preacher," said Temperance, "I don't hold much with religion." "Few do, and of those who profess faith, some take it far too seriously and others consider it a license to misbehave.

Europeans had no prospects other than the "life after life" in heaven promised to true believers.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774 ]

Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters , is of importance. And I have no doubt that every new example, will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together . [ Letter to Edward Livingston, 10 July 1822 - Writings 9:100--103 ]

You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.

I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn't come natural to me until I became a Christian.- Ruth McBride

So he drinks and grows plants and goes to church," Potts said. "So far, he sounds Catholic.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

Everybody got God on their side in war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.

Like most of the Jews in Suffolk they treated me very kindly, truly warm and welcoming, as if I were one of them which in an odd way I suppose I was. I found it odd and amazing when white people treated me that way, as if there were no barriers between us. It said a lot about this religion—Judaism—that some of its followers, old southern crackers who talked with southern twangs and wore straw hats, seemed to believe that its covenants went beyond the color of one's skin.

I didn't make head nor tails of what he was saying, for I was to learn that Old John Brown could work the Lord into just about any aspect of his comings and goings in life, including using the privy. That's one reason I weren't a believer, having been raised by my Pa, who was a believer and a lunatic, and them things seemed to run together.

Religion is your seeking after a god in your own image. Christianity is God's seeking you and moving to redeem you by the death of His Son.

What a splendid liar! she breathed softly. Don't you believe in God? Kent winced. In a large, embracing sense, yes, he said. I believe in Him, for instance, as revealed to our senses in all that living, growing glory you see out there through the window Nature and I have become pretty good pals, and you see I've sort of built up a mother goddess to worship instead of a he-god. Sacrilege, maybe, but it's a great comfort at times. But you didn't come to talk religion?

I looked into her eyes. Mom, who do you pray to? I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

The possibility of a woman pope was extraordinary, astounding, and if it happened, the consequences would be profound. Zachary

Catholic schools in New York City.