Quotes About Religion

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.

In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts.

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

I don't have a cause - I am being obedient to God.

My moral obligation is to God. I won't curse in God's name.

Atheists are just as obnoxious if not more obnoxious than zealots.

No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

Nella nostra famiglia non c'era una chiara linea di demarcazione tra religione e pesca a mosca.

Roth was irritated. Just because he was a Jew too, they always assumed he felt the same way about things. It made him feel a little frustrated. No doubt some of his bad luck had come because he was one, but that was unfair; it wasn't as if he took an interest, it was just an accident of birth.

Piety can also serve as a wall to keep the pious from recognizing how profoundly angry they are at God—this God who has failed to treat them by what they see as their proper right.

He had been certain that religion was there for a very good practical reason. It couldn't be simpler—you had to keep the weak and unruly in order. But a man of pride (such as himself) could do as he chose.

God is a luxury I don't give myself.

This business of living for eternity certainly contributed to capital punishment, brutality, and war. Why, Brigham Young with his countless wives pining on the vine had the gall to state that if you discovered one of your women in adultery, it would behoove you as a good and Christian act to hold her on your lap and run a knife through her breast. That way she'd have her whack at the hereafter.

One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is actually with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.

You can go to heaven and never speak in tongues.

Y sus sacerdotes jamás sospecharon que Pies y Manos no eran sino las extremidades de un mismo dios.

El siglo XX ha perfeccionado los odios religiosos al convertirlos en pasiones ideológicas.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.