Religion In Quotes

#1. The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.

Kent Hovind

#2. Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#3. Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.

David Platt

#4. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people ...

Hillary Clinton

#5. It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.

Richard Baxter

#6. There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

Robert Bork

#7. I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

Anne Rice

#8. All religion is in daily need of reformation because all religion, in both blatant and subtle ways, seeks to make itself and its creeds, codes, and cults more important than the revelation and experience it is meant to serve and pass on.

Paul F. Knitter

#9. There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

Margaret Fuller

#10. Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

Friedrich Engels

#11. Brian told Mom we needed to keep Maureen away from those nutty Pentecostals, but Mom said we all came to religion in our own individual ways and we each need to respect the religious practices of others, seeing as it was up to every human being to find his or her own way to heaven.

Jeannette Walls

#12. I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Simon Schama

#13. Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

Lawrence M. Krauss

#14. Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.

Reza Aslan

#15. There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others.

Roger Babson

#16. The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.

Mike Wallace

#17. How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

Marquis De Sade

#18. The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends ...

C.S. Lewis

#19. There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion ... THEIR religion.

Phil Donahue

#20. We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Joan D. Chittister

#21. At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.

G. Willow Wilson

#23. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.

Cynthia Ozick

#24. You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

Erwin McManus

#25. Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.

Mathew Staver

#27. For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Lionel Blue

#28. What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

Mark Twain

#29. Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

Anne Graham Lotz

#30. How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very name of wilderness, which charms the ear, and soothes the spirit of man. There is religion in it.

Estwick Evans

#31. Paradoxically, Islam is the most decentralized and yet, at the same time, the most rigid religion in the world. Everyone feels entitled to rule out free discussion.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#32. Mohammed and the pope have this principle of religion in common: they pretend that Scripture does not contain perfect doctrine, and that they receive a higher revelation from the Spirit. The

John Calvin

#33. There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.

Tariq Ali

#34. Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

John Oliver

#35. So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Lucretius

#36. As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after me."
"Are you taking up religion in your old age, then, Captain?"
"Hardly. Habit, my love, habit.

Catherynne M Valente

#37. 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.

Hunter Parrish

#38. There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!

Leonard Ravenhill

#40. I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

Neil Young

#41. Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

W. C. Brownell

#42. 27Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

Anonymous

#43. If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#44. I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

Ja Rule

#45. Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.

Geerhardus Vos

#46. Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love

Anton Szandor LaVey

#47. Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.

Tariq Ramadan

#48. Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.

J.D. Salinger

#49. India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

Annie Besant

#50. There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

Henry David Thoreau

#51. I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#52. The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things ... after the weather.

Billy Connolly

#53. Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.

Reza Aslan

#54. In the name of religious freedom, relativists have banished religion from the public square. They say they have to destroy public displays of religion in order to protect it. They response has been a culturewide gag order on Christianity in governmental and even commercial circumstances.

Robert H. Knight

#55. Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Brendan Behan

#56. Art, in the sense of fine art, often is a kind of religion in our age, because it appears as a means of transcending society at a time when other means of such transcendence are no longer available for many people, particularly the educated.

George Parkin Grant

#57. INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.

Ambrose Bierce

#58. Arr, reality's a dirty place with no religion in it.

Stephen King

#59. There shouldn't be a separation of any religion in any way. Unfortunately, through the centuries there have been problems from the "My God is better than your God" mentality.

Kevin Sorbo

#60. Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Lori Lipman Brown

#61. There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Thaddeus Stevens

#62. Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.

Bill O'Reilly

#63. Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

Mitt Romney

#64. Far from applying the teachings of their religion in our personal lives, we have a tendency to use them to reinforce our self-centered attitudes. We relate to our religion as something we own or as a label that separates us from others. Surely this is misguided?

Dalai Lama XIV

#65. Strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

Margaret Cho

#66. Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

William James

#67. Christianity is the gayest religion, you know. Its core commandment to men is to form a deep lifelong partnership with ANOTHER MAN. It demands real man-on-man, man-on-Jesus love action, no holds barred. It's the most homophilic religion in the universe.

Joe

#68. If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#69. The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

Samuel Chadwick

#70. For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.

Krista Tippett

#71. A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Abigail Adams

#72. No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

Dorothy Richardson

#73. On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

John Stuart Mill

#74. The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Cliff Stearns

#75. The Church must take right ground in regard to politics ... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God ... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

Charles Grandison Finney

#76. your life under the shade of faith was a continuous love story . Worship and religion in their true essence are nothing but love.

Ahmad Bahjat

#77. Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We're not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it's called Darwinism .

Ben Stein

#78. I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project.

Max Richter

#79. I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism ... Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Aldous Huxley

#80. Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

Dwight Longenecker

#81. The costs of engaging in the black market of religion in China are very high. Once found by the authorities, leaders and believers may suffer psychological abuse, physical torture, monetary fines,

Anonymous

#82. Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

Stephen Kinzer

#83. Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Yann Martel

#84. You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

Jerry Garcia

#85. I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit ... it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

Uwem Akpan

#86. I broke with my religion in college.

Anne Rice

#87. It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#88. I got religion in the third grade, and jeepers, did I need it. The devil was in me, and Hardy Biesterveld wasn't helping.

Michael Perry

#89. Petra shook her head. I knew you were stupid, because you became a talk-therapy shrink, which is like becoming a minister of a religion in which you get to be God.

Orson Scott Card

#90. I'm a Catholic, and I have always been fascinated by not just my religion, but religion in general, in the sense that it is the ultimate brand that they're trying to sell. Whereas Ford is trying to sell cars, the Vatican is trying to sell salvation, which is a much better product to be peddling.

Tom Fontana

#91. The origin behind myths and religion is human terror of annihilation. Human societies invented mythology and religion in order to militate against people's fear of living a mortal life. People fear time as a destroyer of human happiness, human beings, and human societies.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#92. Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#93. It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Asghar Farhadi

#94. If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

Thomas Jefferson

#95. saw religion in Odessa used not to reinforce religious beliefs at all but as an excuse for people to come together and be made comfortable with their own social beliefs in racial and gender bigotry.

H. G. Bissinger

#96. I can imagine if there's nothing in my pocket, but i can't imagine if there's no knowledge in my mind and religion in my heart.
They are my other suns in my life.

Iwan Setyawan

#97. In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

James Welch

#98. The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#99. I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storm and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

Walt Disney Company

#100. When I first came here it was a pure country. There was music and dancing and magic every day in the streets.
Now it's finished, everything. Even the religion. In a few more years the whole country will be like all the other Moslem countries, just a huge European slum, full of poverty and hatred.

Paul Bowles