Religion Quotes

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.

God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

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

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.