Religion Quotes

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Elton John

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Paul Bert

Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers ...

Saint Ambrose of Milan

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

Kenneth Hare

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

Larry Harvey

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

Nicole Scherzinger

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Iris Murdoch

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Iris Murdoch

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Dave Barry

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Eric Gill

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Emily Greene Balch

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.

Edmund Burke

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Ricardo Montalban

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Joseph Joubert

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Ramakrishna

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

Eva Herzigova

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Stephen King