Religion Quotes

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

Albert Einstein

The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.

Peter T. Forsyth

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

William Robertson Smith

But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.

Aldous Huxley

I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

Angie Stone

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

E. Stanley Jones

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

Alice Walker

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Gregory Bateson

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Herbert Read

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

Andrea Riseborough

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Thomas Paine

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Taslima Nasrin

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Thomas Paine

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent

Albert Einstein