Religion Quotes

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

I'm an atheist. I don't have a religion.

With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself. After I received a diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia at the age of 22, I put my faith in medicine.

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

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.