Religion Quotes
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My religion is life, and my church is the universe.
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I'm a fan of Bill Hicks. He did things that no other stand up did at the time. He was making fun of religion, at that time it was a lot harder to say those things in the States than it was here. To slag off Christianity and fundamentalist Christians, and to be pro drugs and anti gun in the deep south, that's a big ask. And he did that and made it funny. Bill Hicks was able to say things that he really thought, and he managed to make those thoughts funny without a care if it antagonised people.
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Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil morality.
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The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
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If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.
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Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.
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There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
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Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
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Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Religion, which true policy befriends, Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends, Is by that old deceiver's subtle play Made the chief party in its own decay, And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.
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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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No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.
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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.
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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
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The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.
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In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.
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Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.
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The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian.
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Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion.
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If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
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Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
