Religion Quotes
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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.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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Money is the wise man's religion.
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Religion is an edifice built upon the dream of a beautiful world... Pity the dreamers are rarely builders.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
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No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
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Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered the droughts and floods and plagues. . . .
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.
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On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
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And I find art is something that gives you something that you need for your life. Just as religion is something that you need even if you constantly find it denied today.
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Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.
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All true religion must stand on true morality.
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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.
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I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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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.
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When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.