Religion Quotes

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates t…

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based…

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between th…

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the countr…

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears a…

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribe…

I don't think you need religion.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic an…

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.