Religion Quotes

• 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.'

  

  Richard Wagner
  • Opinion
  • Forever
  • Should

• Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.

  

  John Calvin
  • Earth
  • Philosophy
  • Angels

• I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

  

  Jonathan Raymond
  • Religion
  • Speak
  • Irony

• There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

  

  David Schuller
  • Politics
  • Differences
  • Logic

• Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Religion
  • Promise
  • Blithely

• It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Remember
  • Atheism
  • Believer

• Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

  

  George Santayana
  • Religion
  • Consciousness
  • Impotence

• The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Heart
  • Sufi
  • Principal moral

• When you hear a person say, "I hate," adding the name of some race, nation, religion, or social class, you are dealing with a belated mind. That person may dress like a modern, ride in an automobile, listen to the radio, but his or her mind is properly dated about 1000 B.C.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Race
  • Nation
  • Belated mind

• Christianity is, above all other religions ever known, a religion of sacrifice. It is a religion founded on the greatest of all sacrifices, the sacrifice of the Incarnation, culminating in the sacrifice on Calvary.

  

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Christianity

• I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Church
  • Experiences
  • I Believe In

• One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Country
  • Man
  • Member

• The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Reality
  • Universe
  • Discover

• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Light
  • Religion
  • Darkness

• 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.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Change
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test...

  

  Brigham Young
  • Religion
  • Bible
  • Latter-day Saints

• 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.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Men
  • Jesus
  • Doubt

• I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

  

  Catherine Hicks
  • Religion
  • Quiet
  • Private

• I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Thinking
  • Religion
  • Talking

• In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.

  

  Mike Bartlett
  • Because
  • Dinner
  • About

• 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?

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Trying
  • Church
  • Enough

• Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Beauty
  • Blood
  • Experienced

• At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Feeling
  • Religion
  • Fairy Stories

• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  

  Reza Aslan
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Stereotype

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