Religion Quotes
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
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Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
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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 and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.
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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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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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Religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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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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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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Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.
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You a Catholic, Harry?” O’Neill asked. “I was. Can’t see it any more.” “You know something?” O’Neill offered after a pause. “Religion is for punks and old folks. When you’re a punk you need it because you don’t know any better and it straightens you up. And when you’re old you need it for comfort before you check out. But in between it’s no good.
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It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.
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This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
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All true religion must stand on true morality.
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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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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.
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The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
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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."
