Religion Quotes
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Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Video games are like a religion; you want to get people tattooing your little logo on their body so they’ll get somebody else interested in it too.
Cliff Bleszinski
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Love is my love, love is my religion
Anne Conway
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Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.
William Cowper
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
Ernest Hemingway
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
Jonathan Swift
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Bono
U2
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It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.
Barbara Brandriff Crabb
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The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
Eboo Patel
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An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
E. Stanley Jones
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Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
Max Jacob
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My salvation does not hinge on my emotions. I have an official record. I have the Word of God: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life."
Adrian Rogers
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There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.
Sandra Bullock
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Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.
Sigmund Freud