Religion Quotes

• 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

• The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Respect
  • Religion
  • Devotees

• The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Teach
  • Human Nature

• I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Religion
  • Airport
  • Baggage

• Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.

  

  George W Truett
  • Church
  • Religion
  • State

• It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

  

  Walter J Chantry
  • Christianity
  • Conscience
  • Preacher

• Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

  

  Darrel Ray
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Married

• whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Taken
  • Made
  • Devotion

• Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Religion

• I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Loved
  • Christianity

• The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

  

  Joseph Stiglitz
  • Religion
  • Economics
  • Ideology

• I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Teaches

• In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Religion
  • Authority
  • Real Sense

• It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

  

  William Anthony Donohue
  • Thinking
  • Christ
  • Atheism

• Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Philosophy
  • Atheism
  • Sufism

• “The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and religion... I have been told they have thrown off the mask and are preaching to the people to elect none but godly men to represent them in the General and State Legislatures; ... what they mean by godly people, is people of their own stamp...”

  

  Anne Royall
  • People
  • Liberty
  • Represent

• There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

  

  Anne Nicol Gaylor
  • Religion
  • Minds
  • Superstition

• I don't need to publish anything to make a living, so to speak, and I think it is much more important to spread information about our European religion than it is to make money from doing so.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Speak

• Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

  

  Joseph Joubert
  • Souls
  • Capable
  • Superstition

• Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Tree
  • Branches

• Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy
  • Motivated
  • Demand

• The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Charity
  • Bravery

• 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

• Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Religion
  • Spirit
  • Fruit

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