Quotes About Religion

My job on Earth, the reason why Kirk is created, is to make God famous. I just want God to be well-known. And I think it's created a dialogue - I think it's opened up conversation, and people have started to talk about what religion is to them.

If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we?

In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.

And so I remember moving to LA, going to the Islamic center in Hollywood and feeling like the cultural element wasn't what we were operating from as much as the spiritual one, and that was really cool. That was really good for, you know, my growth and my development.

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us

I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him.

Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

La obstinación de fray De las Casas para liberar a los indígenas de la cruel dominación de los europeos lo llevó a propugnar su reemplazo por esclavos traídos de África, como si estos no fueran seres humanos, lo que fomentará el tráfico negrero al darle sustento ideológico y religioso.

Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous Protestant monotheism.

Our ideas of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." —THOMAS MERTON, CHRISTIAN MYSTIC

For the people of my country, Renato said, water is everything: love, life, religion... even God. It is like that for me too, I said. In English we call that a metaphor. Of course, said Renato, and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.

Some aspects of true religion are accepted almost universally. Who, indeed, would deny them? Were anyone to declare that Jesus Christ's real meaning in the verse, "Except ye . . . become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 18:3), was that we should all put on rompers and play on the beach with spades and buckets, he would be merely laughed at. To be childlike is not the same thing at all as to be childish.

If religion allays anxiety, it cures only a small part of the disease it creates.