Religion Quotes
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.
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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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Religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.
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Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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Judaism was not a religion but a law.
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Governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.
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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.
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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.
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Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.
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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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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
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Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
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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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Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
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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. There was a PhD dissertation waiting to be written about such a cycle.
