Religion Quotes

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Religion cannot be the agenda of any government.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I'd been brought up in a society which didn't talk about sex, food, money, religion or politics. Those things were all deemed slightly rude.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.