Religion Quotes
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Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
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Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.
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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire lifetime. This does not disprove his existence, but it certainly casts great doubt on the historicity of a man who was supposedly widely known to have made a great impact on the world. Someone should have noticed.
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Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.
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Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
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There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.
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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.
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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
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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.
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Show true religion, cause words don't relieve
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Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
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I'm sad because I want to bow out of my race and leave my beautiful identity? Chinese love Chinese. They love their little slant eyed, pale brown skinned babies. Pakistanis love their culture.Jewish people love their culture. A lot of Catholics want to marry Catholics because the want their religion to stay the same.
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
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Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
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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.
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In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
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What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
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Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.
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Religion, like philosophy, is a living thing. If it isn’t allowed to change with the times, if it is left to calcify, it will surely become irrelevant.
