Quotes About Religion

A truth was brought home to Alex that he'd considered many times, but never in so personal a way: there were people in the world who had just enough religion to hate, but not enough religion to love.

Singapur es el Belén de la nueva gran religión: la religión del consumismo, del bienestar material, del turismo de masas. Ya no hay necesidad de catedrales o mezquitas. Los hoteles son los nuevos templo.

The more religious people are, the more they believe in black magic. (Aleister Crowley)1

Religion may be the most ephemeral eddy of them all. It persists with a name and a building where the faithful congregate over generations. The faith the first generation embraced might be unrecognizable to the last, even though the building and the name have remained unchanged.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Were we not standing atop the birthplace of a certain kind of religious nationalism? Zion lay all around us. See where the Prophet left this earth, where Christ rose from the dead, where the Messiah would, finally, appear. Which of us, in this war, was not Judas to someone?

Even after I lost my religious faith, Christianity remained to me deeply and resonantly interesting, and I have long believed that anyone who does not find Christianity interesting has only his or her unfamiliarity with the topic to blame.

What Christianity promises, I do not understand. What its god could possibly want, I have never been able to imagine, not even when I was a Christian.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening.

My imam at the Central Mosque said there was no problem with making music. In fact, he encouraged me - he said if the songs are moral, not offensive, then go ahead.

Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.