Religion Quotes
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Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.
Eric Maisel
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Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
Ellery Schempp
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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
Richard Rohr
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By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.
Ella Leya
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Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.
Halford Luccock
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In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.
Dan Barker
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There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
Sean O'Casey
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There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
Richard Lederer
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When I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
Gertrude Atherton
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I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
Benjamin Wittes
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And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.
Brian Henson
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There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.
Dan Barker
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The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
Richard M. Nixon
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There is nothing in religion but fiction.
George Bernard Shaw
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The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
Eugene Kennedy
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Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
Evan Bayh
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The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
Eugene Kennedy
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My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
Miguel de Unamuno
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We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter.
Brent Stirton