Top 23 Religion Definitions Quotes
#1. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.
Michael Ruse
#3. A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
Joseph Campbell
#4. We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
Ralph Ellison
#5. Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.
Reza Aslan
#6. The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality.
Quentin Smith
#7. Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned
Isaac Asimov
#8. Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
Christopher Morley
#9. I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.
Amanda Donohoe
#10. Deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.
Peter Hoeg
#11. God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world - but the fact those yearnings often come to nothing, well, I doubt that's God's doing." She cut her eyes at me and smiled. "I think we know that's men's doing.
Sue Monk Kidd
#12. If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.
Narendra Modi
#13. When we kissed, that flame sparked between us, pushing away the darkness that threatened to swallow me. It was a feeling I wasn't ready to lose.
Trish Marie Dawson
#16. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Penitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.
Idries Shah
#17. I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
Talal Asad
#18. I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.
Leon Bridges
#19. Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.
Irene Thomas
#20. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Emotionalist:
A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.
Idries Shah
#21. E.P. Whipple calls fanaticism "religion caricatured," which is a full definition in a word.
James Parton
#22. I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.
Sheri S. Tepper
#23. If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.
Paul Of The Cross
