Quotes About Religion

every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

Historically, the most dangerous men on earth were men of God … especially when their gods became threatened.

That is to say, when the ancients experienced gaps in their understanding of the world around them, they filled those gaps with God.

I believe future generations will ask themselves how a technologically advanced species like ours could possibly believe most of what our modern religions teach us.

science and religion are not at odds. science is just too young to understand.

I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures. Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always helps inspire benevolent behavior.

William Blake himself had written a similarly themed work titled All Religions Are One.

Nelle cattedrali è sempre notte.

Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don't have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord's name in vain all you like,' he laughed, 'just don't slander any quarks or mesons.

all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

science and religion are often attempting to tell the same story in two different languages.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both." After that meeting, Edmond had

Fossils were placed there by God to test our faith. - U.S. congressman Paul Broun

Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage … an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.

William Blake," Langdon said. " 'The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.'

Kirsch planned to go public with this presentation in a stunning, meticulously choreographed event. When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.

why half the schools in your country are not allowed to teach evolution. Ask yourself why the U.S. Christian Coalition is the most influential lobby against scientific progress in the world. The battle between science and religion is still raging, Mr. Langdon. It has moved from the battlefields to the boardrooms, but it is still raging.

I grew up Catholic. I know sin.

The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.

Mal'akh was dragging Langdon across the living room when the congregation declared, "Amen!" Amon, Mal'akh corrected. Egypt is the cradle of your religion. The god Amon was the prototype for Zeus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ for Jupiter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and for every modern face of God. To this day, every religion on earth shouted out a variation of his name. Amen! Amin! Aum!

Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels," someone argued. "Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have too much invested to stop!

don't believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect—" "—intended us to forgo their use?