Quotes About Religion

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.

I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.

I received more genuine religious stimulation in prison than in the seminary.

I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

It was the British who defined religion to divide and rule. That is what created the heat. That is what created the cut. Partition happened because of the rulers, fueled by a few powerful families on both sides who stood to gain. It is the politicians that keep everyone fighting.