Religion Quotes

• A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Doubt

• Conversion was not a widely known phenomenon in antiquity. Pagan religions had almost nothing like it. They were polytheistic, and anyone who decided, as a pagan, to worship a new or different god was never required to relinquish any former gods or their previous patterns of worship. Pagan religions were additive, not restrictive.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Worship
  • Phenomenon
  • Conversion

• Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Work
  • Religion
  • Speaking

• There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

  

  Arjuna Ardagh
  • Men
  • Women
  • Planet

• Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

  

  Michael Franti
  • Life
  • God
  • Decision

• So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And Communism had brought him back full circle to poverty.

  

  Colin Cotterill
  • Education
  • Poverty
  • Lust

• Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Giving
  • Christ
  • Surrender

• To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • World
  • Religion
  • Swimming

• Everyone who has ever asked for asylum in Slovakia was granted asylum if that person met the conditions. There was never any discrimination based on religion.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Everyone
  • Conditions
  • Discrimination

• We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Human
  • Protection

• Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Religion
  • Cow
  • Kicks

• It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Perfect
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

  

  William Godwin
  • Religion
  • Tyrants

• Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Religion
  • Resulting

• There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

  

  George William Foote
  • Religion
  • Sense
  • Get Together

• To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Running

• There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Mind
  • Joy
  • Doubt

• It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Religion
  • Myth
  • Historian

• The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Wisdom
  • Religion
  • Characters

• In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Support
  • Religion
  • Morality

• Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Ignoring

• Whatever religion we are, we must pray together.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Religion
  • Pray

• Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

  

  William Buckland
  • Science
  • Goodness
  • Conviction

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

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Religion
  • Prejudice
  • Notion

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