Religion Quotes

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

Rick Santorum

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.

Bill Maher

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Desmond Tutu

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Immanuel Kant

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Anita Diament

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Swami Sivananda

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

Benjamin Whichcote

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

Mary Garden

The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.

William Adams Brown

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Golda Meir

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

Pope Shenouda III

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

Sir Henry Wotton

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Brian Eno

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Barack Obama

And you, systematic Utopians, who make an abstraction of human nature, fomentors of atheism, fed on chimerae and hatreds, emancipators of woman, destroyers of the family, genealogists of the simian race, you whose name was but lately an outrage, be satisfied: you shall have been the prophets, and your disciples will be the high-priests of an abominable future!

Comte de Falloux