Religious Quotes

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

Saul Bellow
- People
- History
- Americans
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

Michael Pitt
- Religious
- Persons

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

Sara Paretsky
- Running
- College
- Church
There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

Moira Kelly
- Religious
- Would
- Battles
In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

Wernher von Braun
Meher Baba’s teaching gives no importance to creed, dogma, caste or the performance of religious ceremonies and rites, but does to the UNDERSTANDING of the following seven Realities:

Meher Baba
- Understanding
- Religious
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

Barbara Brown Taylor
- God
- Religious
- Trouble
Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

Reza Aslan