Religion Quotes

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

~ Malcolm X

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.

~ David Cameron

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

~ Ingmar Bergman

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

~ Octavia Butler

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

~ Penn Jillette

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

~ Orson Welles

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

~ Roger Ebert

I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.

~ Colin Kaepernick

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

~ Colin Powell

Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.

~ Naftali Bennett

The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.

~ Hakeem Olajuwon

I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

~ Amin Maalouf

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

~ Douglas Brinkley

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

~ Amber Tamblyn

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

~ Martin Luther

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.

~ Steven Pinker

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

~ Ben Carson

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

~ John Keats

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

~ Mike Tyson

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

~ Mandy Moore

Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, 'God is infinite?' If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.

~ Baron D'holbach

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

~ Gabriel Iglesias

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

~ Howard Cosell

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

~ Penn Jillette

The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.

~ Jay Parini

Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don't believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him.

~ Monica Johnson

As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.

~ James Lankford

Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.

~ Bill O'reilly

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

~ Greg Graffin

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

~ Ja Rule

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

~ Ernest Istook

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

~ Jack Bowman

The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.

~ Ian Watson

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

~ Ralph W. Sockman

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

~ Carol P. Christ

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

~ Buddha

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

~ Woodrow Wilson