Quotes About Religion

Belief is something you have in church, and God is dead!

Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul.

To write good religious science fiction, or indeed good religious fiction of any kind, is a challenge but one that it would be worthwhile trying to meet. It seems a pity the field has been apparently abandoned to pernicious rubbish like 'The Da Vinci Code', though this seems already, mercifully, to have faded away. In this, as in other areas, we could do with another C. S. Lewis to re-state the principles of Christianity in terms to stir the imagination.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Parenthetically, in the West's current war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, it would be good for the leaders to remember this "Islamic tactic of warfare." According to this "religious" doctrine of Islam, what Muslims say does not have to be true— after all, to them, "War is deception." And the end justifies the means.

There is no more terrifying experience for a Christian than to discover he has suddenly become a rationalist.

At least God never showed his face in Iceland. Olie tells me it wasn't even created by him. No wonder it's the most peaceful country in the world.

Vi hadde en homse i menigheten vår i Virginia,» sier jeg. «Men etter at jeg rev ut øreringen hans med tang, kom han på bedre tanker.» Goodmoondoor ser på sin skjeggete venn som en liten gutt som venter på at en større gutt skal fyre løs. Torture skratter som djevelen selv, og svarer på godt engelsk: «Heh heh. Slik skal det gjøres. Svi ballene på dem!»

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

On the Day of Judgment no one is safe save the one who returns to God with a pure heart. (Quran) Surely in the breasts of humanity is a lump of flesh, if sound then the whole body is sound, and if corrupt then the whole body is corrupt. Is it not the heart? (Prophet Muhammad ) Blessed are the pure at heart, for they shall see God. (Jesus )

The onus is on us as a community to really put forward a different face for our religion, for our community, and for our Lord, and for our Prophet, peace be upon him, because it's really unacceptable that a religion with all of this beauty should be painted with such ugly strokes. So we're really here trying to paint a beautiful picture of our faith in action.

The Prophet's wife ??'ishah once said, "The best women were the women of the An??r because modesty did not prevent them from learning the religion.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

The Virgin Mary is both a major medieval legacy and a complicated, messy mixed bag.

I am an atheist.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.

The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is in Christ that he "glories".

Bu stresin alt?nda ezilenler için ak?l rahats?zl???na s???nmaktan ba?ka çare gözükmüyordu ki, zaman?n ?artlar? ile bu fanatik dincili?e döndü. Kara Ölüm'ün ilk günlerinde toplu sapk?nl?k, kendini ?ehir ?ehir dola?an binlerce k?rbaçç? tarikatlarda gösterdi. Sonra salg?n?n yay?lmas?ndan Yahudiler sorumlu tutuldu.

Hristiyanl???n erken döneminde (MS ilk 3 yy), her musibet -k?tl?k, deprem, salg?n- toplu ?ekilde Hristiyanl??a geçi?e sebep olmu?tur. Hristiyanl?k, h?yarc?kl? vebaya ve çiçek hastal???na çok ?ey borçludur.

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.