Religion Quotes
-
I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.
-
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.
-
What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It's farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. A message from the heart to the heart.
-
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
-
And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; and in them that worship, or feare that Power otherwise than they do, Superstition.
-
Myth is someone else's religion.
-
Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.
-
Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.
-
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
-
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
-
For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?
-
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
-
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
-
The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
-
To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
-
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.
-
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
-
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.
-
Some believe in Jesus, they don't act like they do. Some believe in Mohammed, I don't believe that's true. Cause they do believe in money, and gold is what it's for, all the gold can't buy no peace of mind in a world that don't believe in nothing anymore.
-
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.
-
Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.
-
Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.
-
My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.
-
I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
