Religion Quotes
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
Vera Farmiga
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Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
Sally Quinn
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While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
Neil Diamond
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Salman Rushdie
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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.
Rainn Wilson
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Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
Pat Buckley
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
Rajiv Ouseph
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It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.
Richard Mentor Johnson
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In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
C. S. Lewis
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza
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No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
Jane Elliott
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Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
Karin Slaughter
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God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.
Oprah Winfrey
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Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison
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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
Karen Armstrong
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Naguib Mahfouz
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
Jimmy Buffett
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Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Ja Rule
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
Youssou N'Dour
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Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.
Johnny Depp