Religion Quotes
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
Frances Wright
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
Nat Turner
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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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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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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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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Salman Rushdie
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Hal Holbrook
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Randall Terry
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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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I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
Maajid Nawaz
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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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Any religion is a perspective upon existence.
Barbara Marciniak
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
Naguib Mahfouz
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
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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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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Walter Pater
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
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'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.
D. B. Sweeney
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
Edgar Snow
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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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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Yehuda Amichai