Quotes About Community

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Religion is collective insanity.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.