Quotes About Religion

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

There are various names for god- Allah, Almighty, Jesus and hundreds of other names but the one I like the most is 'mother'.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Music is not my life. Christ is my life.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.