Religion Quotes
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Wallace Stevens
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
Quentin Tarantino
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Being a Mormon is not a part-time religion. It is your life. You eat, sleep, and breathe Mormonism.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.
D. Elton Trueblood
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Taslima Nasrin
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
S. Jay Olshansky
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
Origen
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
Tariq Ali
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
Hans Jonas
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If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Saint Ambrose
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
A. N. Wilson
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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
Larry Harvey
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Any religion is a perspective upon existence.
Barbara Marciniak
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
Orson Pratt
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
George Bernard Shaw
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
Sam Harris
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright