Religion Major Quotes

#1. I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#2. I had been a religion major, with a focus on scriptural languages, and upon receiving my degree, felt qualified to do
nothing.

Peter Manseau

#3. I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.

Amy Brenneman

#4. I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

Salman Rushdie

#5. There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

Arjuna Ardagh

#6. I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

John Hodgman

#7. What are the chances that of all 1.59629 quadrillion square feet of physical land on planet Earth, three major world religions are literally fighting over one single rock?

Jared Brock

#8. From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.

Derek R. Audette

#9. Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#10. A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

Criss Jami

#11. Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

A.C. Grayling

#12. Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.

Paul Copan

#13. Every major world religion has identified marriage as between a man and a woman.

Barack Obama

#14. Religion is the source of major conflicts in the world. It divides the human race, and in the name of God those who follow sectarian religion have caused more bloodshed and destruction of human progress than any other force in the world.

Sibaprasad Dutta

#15. Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Katha Pollitt

#16. Every major religion documents the fact that we ourselves have to take action to achieve whatever we desire. So why leave it on luck when your thoughts, beliefs and actions create your destiny?

Maddy Malhotra

#17. Churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

Georgia Harkness

#18. My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

Art Linkletter

#19. [E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Edward O. Wilson

#20. To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

Robert Shea

#21. When it comes to BULLSHIT ... BIG-TIME, MAJOR LEAGUE BULLSHIT ... you have to stand IN AWE, IN AWE of the all time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion.

George Carlin

#22. One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

Ray Comfort

#23. The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Hugh Hefner

#24. When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

Rick Warren

#25. Christianity has roughly 20 percent of its followers in Africa, 20 percent in Asia, 20 percent in Europe, 20 percent in North America, and 20 percent in South America. Every other major religion has at least 80 percent of its followers concentrated on one continent.

J.D. Greear

#26. We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

Jonathan Sacks

#27. We are near 2010 ... .2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love of the future and humanity ... .let's wake up.

Asher Roth

#28. The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Robert Bork

#29. Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.... The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.

Richard Rohr

#30. No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

Jane Elliot

#31. You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

Arthur C. Clarke

#32. Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.

Bruce L. Shelley

#33. Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. Every major world religion has this rule in common and a God they should love.

Darrell Mowat

#34. Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.

Joel Hunter

#35. The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

Dalai Lama XIV

#36. The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.

Jay Parini

#37. Science makes major contributions to minor needs, Justice Holmes was fond of saying, adding that religion, however small its successes, is at least at work on the things that matter most.

Huston Smith

#38. A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#39. Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

Bruce L. Shelley