Religion Quotes

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.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn't right.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.