Top 100 Great Religion Quotes
#1. Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam. They've hijacked a great religion.
George W. Bush
#2. To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
Donatella Versace
#3. I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
George Eliot
#4. Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
Mary Augusta Ward
#5. The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#6. Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.
Neale Donald Walsch
#7. It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths.
Carla VanKoughnett
#8. India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
Annie Besant
#9. His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
John Keats
#10. Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.
Dalai Lama
#11. The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
David O. Russell
#12. The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#14. I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.
Susan B. Anthony
#15. I guess God can be whatever God wants to be. Maybe God's so great that even our little rules about material reality and our tiny little universe don't mean anything to God. You ever think of that?
Donna Leon
#16. Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
Thomas Merton
#17. You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.
James Joyce
#19. Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
Camille Paglia
#20. We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#21. Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost
#22. There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people ... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.
Charles M. Schulz
#23. Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
Emil Cioran
#24. He never went to church, which Bailey and I thought also proved he was a very courageous person. How great it would be to grow up like that, to be able to stare religion down,
Maya Angelou
#25. Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.
Geraldine Jewsbury
#26. Doug appeared, clad in an Affliction waffle-knit tee and True Religion jeans. It was 2006, so this was a sign of great success.
Mindy Kaling
#28. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
#30. I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.
Anne Rice
#31. The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.
Joseph Addison
#32. It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.
Joseph Glanvill
#33. The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
Rodney Stark
#34. Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him.
Philip Doddridge
#35. You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.
Swami Vivekananda
#36. I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
Adolf Hitler
#37. Me and God have a great relationship, but we're both seeing other people.
Dolly Parton
#38. In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#39. I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.
Jon Krakauer
#40. Zeal, if it be well ordered, is most beautiful in a Christian; but if not, it is a thing of exceeding great danger: as fire in moderation is most comfortable, but in extremity most fearful.
Nehemiah Rogers
#41. I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force ... this is my religion of optimism.
Helen Keller
#42. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.
Michael Grant
#44. He (Abraham Lincoln) is one of the few men in history, our own history and all history, whose religion was great enough to bridge the gulfs between the sects, to encompass us all.
Dean Sperry
#47. There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.
Sonia Sotomayor
#48. The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
Carl Sagan
#50. Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#52. Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
Muriel Spark
#53. Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. And here, in truth, was the inexperienced youth's great danger - the danger of mistaking in others a mere profession of religion for heart piety, and of being himself led to rest satisfied with a form of godliness.
George E. Sargent
#56. I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also had some horrible meals, so it's important to pick the right things. Take a heaping helping of compassion and mercy, and leave the intolerance on the table.
A. J. Jacobs
#57. The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country - everybody is in a hurry to impose a certain religion on the child. How foolish! How stupid! Religion needs maturity, great understanding, before one can choose.
Rajneesh
#58. My main interest ... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
George Sarton
#59. Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
Christopher Marlowe
#60. The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as you will.
Stifyn Emrys
#61. A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.
Benjamin Franklin
#62. Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
Alfred Rosenberg
#63. With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
Jerry Costello
#64. The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.
Chris Matakas
#65. We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington
#66. First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Barbara Walters
#67. I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.
Joel Edgerton
#68. With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made.
Damon Thueson
#69. There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
Andy Rooney
#70. A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.
William MacDonald
#71. There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.
Os Guinness
#72. But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork'. Thus scientific research is a worshipful act, in that it reveals more of the wonders of God's creation.
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
#73. The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
William Hazlitt
#74. One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
Nick Hornby
#75. The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.
Peter Hoeg
#76. There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
Emily Greene Balch
#77. I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true ... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do.
Michael Bloomberg
#78. Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".
Neil Postman
#79. Three great lessons for my children; love God, love yourself and love your neighbour as yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. Science and religion are both guilty of committing atrocities," King Solomon continued. "They are not evil in and of themselves, but in the hands of evil men they can be manipulated to produce great destruction.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#81. For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads", and the "Bhagavad Gita".
Jawaharlal Nehru
#82. I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
Abhishek Bachchan
#83. Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
Robert Andrews Millikan
#84. The Great Spirit finds all life, even that of an abomination, is sacred.
Craig R. Key
#85. Religion can bring great comfort to children.
It can also turn their lives into a living hell.
Janet Heimlich
#86. Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.
Spurgeon, Charles H.
#88. Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.
David Eagleman
#89. Three great actions:
To do what is right,
To love mercy, and
To walk humbly with Yahweh.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
Frances O'Connor
#91. The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#92. Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
Abraham Cowley
#93. Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Samuel Chase
#94. It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.
Walter Scott
#95. Even though it is a Great Right to Vote :
I refuse to participate on the elections :
Petra Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 22, 2016
Petra Hermans
#97. May the Lord grant you great grace, great strength and great wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#98. Humankind would be so bored if we already knew all the answers! The beauty of the Universe lies in our need to understand it, for that is what challenges us to acquire the knowledge and wisdom to reach great heights!
J.B. Richards
#99. Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.
George Bernard Shaw
#100. All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.
H.L. Mencken
