Religion Quotes

• We do not need to prove religion to people, but to show them that they are religious.

  

  George Tyrrell
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Prove

• I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.

  

  Howard Stern
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.

  

  Allen Steele
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Difference

• Religion dies hard in the Irish.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Religion

• I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Church
  • Irony
  • Established

• No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Religion

• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  

  William P. Young
  • Trying
  • Understanding
  • Religious

• If I had the money I'd pay people to have them read accurate books or posts about our own religion. It is very important not only for their self-image, but also for the future of Europe - as a biological term.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • People
  • Money
  • Books

• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Result
  • Developed
  • Sensory World

• The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.

  

  Joseph Lewis
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Coward

• I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

  

  Georgi Parvanov
  • Religion
  • President
  • Ethnicity

• If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Change
  • Wonder
  • Engage

• And so we have one of the great ironies of the early Christian tradition. The profoundly Jewish religion of Jesus and his followers became the viciously anti-Jewish religion of later times, leading to the horrific persecutions of the Middle Ages and the pogroms and attempted genocides that have plagued the world down to recent times.6 Anti-Semitism as it has come down to us today is the history of specifically Christian reactions to non-Christian Jews. It is one of the least savory inventions of the early church.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Church
  • Jewish
  • Anti-Semitism

• Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Religion
  • Prejudice
  • Notion

• Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

  

  Moustapha Akkad
  • Religion
  • Following
  • Muslim

• The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Requires
  • Possessions

• No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Woman
  • Religion
  • Laid

• My wife told me, "Listen, you have to do something big, beautiful story." I remember that I read The Shack script and I told her that there is a big message over here, and as a Jew, I read the script, and I didn't see anything that connects to religion. It's not about religion, it's about faith, it's about God, and I connected with it, because from my point of view, there is God in this world.

  

  Aviv Alush
  • Religion
  • View
  • Script

• Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.

  

  Nell Irvin Painter
  • Century
  • Instance
  • Controversial

• Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Bad
  • Conscience
  • Punishment

• Martyrdoms would rarely lead to conversions because they were themselves relatively rare. The vast majority of pagans—including the millions who eventually converted—never saw a martyrdom, as recent scholarship has shown. As the most prolific and one of the best-traveled authors of the first three Christian centuries, Origen of Alexandria, stated in no uncertain terms: “Only a small number of people, easily counted, have died for the Christian religion.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christian
  • Martyrdom
  • Coversions

• Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Past
  • Party
  • Oppression

• Religion taught us to return good for evil.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Religion

• The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Country
  • Political

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