Quotes about religion

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms Truth has no form.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode

Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance which helps one persist in making things happen.

No child really chooses his religion it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

The flawed must be quiet they must not bring attention to their aberrations.

We pray God would do it our way we should pray we would do it God's way!

Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals it’s about spending time with Dad.

Faith is where they learn about their God but Prayer is where they explore Him.

There are two kinds of spirit either light or darkness.

To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit and (3) a few psychology books.

Man is mortal we are dust and to dust we shall return

God has given me life He is capable of anything else.

The Lord lit my life with the light of your love.

Everybody prayed everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights.

I do have a religion it’s just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature.

Would we believe their story if the dead should return?

Religion has to be protected difference of opinion is not to be protected.

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness with Christ it brings compassion.

Prayer is the key that opens heaven the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason to have a prayer answered.

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

You can’t argue with religious people you can’t change their mind even if you prove them wrong.

God is a symbol of imaginative power he has as much power and love as you can imagine.

Holy Scriptures the precious promise of God.

Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did often were blood related and moved from place to place in clans strengthened by civic and ecclesiastical covenants.

Don’t live a day without your spiritual nourishment mediation on the word of God.

Religions differ only in the form religions differ only in their methodology.

The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

Christianity is not a white man’s religion and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people he belongs to the whole world.

I am seeing life in two dimensions human and divine.

There are two things that can stop us from committing an evil act love and fear- religion always chooses the latter one.

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hat

The home is the most ritualized place in a society each house is like a religious order with its own ceremonies.

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking free from all beliefs and superstitions we all make difference.

Doubt is a difficult animal to master because it requires that we learn the difference between doubting God and doubting what we believe about God. The former has the potential to destroy faith the latter has the power to enrich and refine it. The former is a vice the latter a virtue.

When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others if that doesn't happen there is nothing wrong with God's finger there is something wrong with your heart

Church is not about learning how to be a moral person (though that is what the dominant narrative they hear tells them) it is a place where immoral individuals go in order to receive the grace of God.

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying we would have had a three times more educated people than the whole world's population.

From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.

I am born here among the monsters if I have to survive I must act like one of them.

There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators but we must not forget that the religion is still out there.

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment end of torture is end of religion.

We must fight for the freedom of religion because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality.

In order to put an end to our conflicts we must put an end to the religions people stupidity.

Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science because religion lies and science can’t.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Evolution is a religion it is not science!

Religion does not care about your purpose or determination it just wants you to live like hell.

In the court of reason man is always a claimant and God is always a respondent. The original intention of the reason for creation of God is to make Him as a respondent as and when the need arises. Hence when a man is in trouble his reason tries to save him by acting as an arbitrator the reason sitting as sole judge asks the man for his claims and makes the God to respond.

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death the modern man's worst fear is just death

Commonsense will never come from following your heart wisdom is only stored in the mind.

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past.

I am Sama Veda among the Vedas I am Indra among the Devas I am the mind among the senses I am the consciousness in living beings.

One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above one more Christian has triumphed in the living Faith one more flower is planted and harvested in the garden of God's Kingdom.

The dog is a gentleman I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

The Way is not in the sky the Way is in the heart.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us it is the very sign of His presence.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them and each mind perceives a different beauty.

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies I just work here.

An ugly face needs make-up that's why Man needs religion.

There either is a god or there is not there is a 'design' or not.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

The petty man wants to use God for himself the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith it is an element of faith.

Faith is not so much something we believe faith is something we live.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation he is unworthy even of man.

No mere mortal can do what the Son of man did Christ Jesus sacrifice is life to save mankind.

Why I love Jesus Christ He saved me from my sins.

Faith is in your Heart Religion is in your Head.

Your moral values & ability to rationalize not your religious beliefs or political affiliations define what you should stand for in society.

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

Reason may win truths without Faith she will retain them just so long as Satan pleases.

There are two types of spirits either light or darkness.Only one spirit (either light or darkness) operates at a time. Grace-divine gives power for spirit of light to exist as a sacred-self.

Pure love’ means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers it is ‘Pure Love’. ‘Pure love’ is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion.

Where there is no peace there is not the slightest religion there.

Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or demerit karma in true religion. True religion is where merit and demerit karma are considered worthy of abandonment and that which is worthy of acceptance is one’s Self-form.

What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion or to have feeble (tamed) kashays is religion. That’s all. Only these two are religion.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

The existence of matter and energy in the universe did not require the violation of energy conservation at the assumed creation. In fact, the data strongly support the hypothesis that no such miracle occurred. If we regard such a miracle as predicted by the creator hypothesis, then the prediction is not confirmed.

For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things. The poetic and theological idea that the universe is an expression of God's creative power is false. And yet the possibility that underlying the nature of things is an undiscoverable force of unimaginable simplicity that one may call God haunts and frustrates modern science. If this principle exists, then it cannot be different from our experience of it: it must be inherent,

Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the other wisdom stories about creation that humanity has gathered, but it certainly supplements it. It offers a real universal view because it's beyond any particular religion, ethnicity, nation and so forth. As we're struggling as a species to come together as a tribe, it provides us our basic framework, because it's from creation stories that ethics derive. Today's creation sto

So, Andrew, what you are basically saying is that the theological issue regarding homosexuality boils down to a disagreement between those who think that the sodomy laws are part of Levitical code about cleanliness, holiness and ritual purity, which are not binding on Christians, and those who think that they are part of a more general moral law, which is." I guess I am. "Gee. It's so simple when you put it like that. Why didn't the Archbishop of Canterbury explain it at the beginning and save u

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. The more we listen to ourselves, the more we create God in our own image until God becomes a tawdry idol that looks and speaks like us. The power of the commandments is found not in the writings of theologians, although I read and admire some, but in the pathos of human life, including lives that are very unlike our own. All states and nations work to

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

In every religion; a true love is the love for the God, in mine it is for you.

Some of the best mysteries end in a love story.

Vision is the end of religion.