Quotes About Understanding

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It's a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you'll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.