Religion Quotes

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Josh McDowell

The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.

Orson Scott Card

But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.

Kurt Vonnegut

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Jennifer Aniston

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

C.S. Lewis

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Blaise Pascal

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Junius

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Eddie Izzard

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

Michelle Malkin

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Sean Hannity

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

Joni Mitchell

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Ben Kingsley

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

James Randi

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Edmond de Goncourt

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

Paulo Coelho

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Jonathan Sacks

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Harriet Martineau