Religion Quotes

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

Art Linkletter

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

Brooks Atkinson

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

Cat Stevens

I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.

Christopher Hitchens

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Larry Flynt

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Charles de Gaulle

An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces

Mark Twain

Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrasing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was as authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Chartres Cathedral or the Cathedral at León and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado. It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely and in which you felt an absolute brotherhood with the others who were engaged in it. It was something that you had never known before but that you had experienced now and you gave such importance to it and the reasons for it that you own death seemed of complete unimportance; only a thing to be avoided because it would interfere with the performance of your duty. But the best thing was that there was something you could do about this feeling and this necessity too. You could fight.

Ernest Hemingway

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

Lance Loud

But as for those who live without knowing Him and without seeking Him... this religion obliges us always to regard them, so long as they are in this life, as capable of the grace which can enlighten them...

Blaise Pascal

There is in every village a torch - the teacher:and an extinguisher - the clergyman.

Victor Hugo

We're on a mission from God.

Elwood

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

Michael Behe

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

Hu Shih

Real religion is no religion at all.

Lauryn Hill

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

Athanasius

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.

Philip Schaff

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Martin Luther King Jr.