Religion Quotes
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We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I was born into it; we all were. But we may not feel the ties unless we gain intimacy by seeing, feeling, smelling, touching and studying the natural world. Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking.
Bernd Heinrich
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Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.
Hillary Clinton
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Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
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It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
William Penn
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
Henrik Ibsen
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Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
Jimmy Buffett
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If you have science and art,
You also have religion;
But if you don't have them,
You better have religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'
Vince Gilligan
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I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to believe in something, but I don't believe in what my parents believed in. Poetry has taken the place, or I think the arts have taken the place, of religion in my life. I wanted to see how that was working out through the poems.
Barbara Hamby
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The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.
Alexander Schmemann
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Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
Henry Norris Russell
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The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
Al-Maʿarri
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If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our American Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.
Benjamin Carson
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Francis Bacon
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
Victor Hugo
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
Flannery O'Connor
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I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
William A. Dembski
