Religion Quotes

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

Rainn Wilson

Wars have always started over religion.

Glenn Danzig

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

John Spong

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Bill Maher

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Gary Locke

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Charles Eastman

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

Stephen Harper

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Sri Aurobindo

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Richard Le Gallienne

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

G. K. Chesterton

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

G. K. Chesterton

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

James Lovelock

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Mary Douglas

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca