Religion Quotes
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Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
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God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.
Derek Harold Richard Barton
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.
Benjamin Rush
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I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
Dave Beard
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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!
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
Simon Greenleaf
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Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.
Lord Byron
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
Robert Frost
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This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are moral or immoral or whether they are something that should be encouraged or discouraged.... Quite simply, this case is about liberty and equality, the two cornerstones of the rights protected by the United States Constitution.
Barbara Brandriff Crabb
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The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
Anne Bronte
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Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.
Mother Teresa
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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
Alma Katsu
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In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
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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.
Anni Albers
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I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy
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How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.
Ernst Junger
