Religion Quotes

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of frien…

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society…

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossi…

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact wit…

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in gov…

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, an…

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.