Religion Quotes

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

~ Brian Eno

Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

~ Tariq Ramadan

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

~ Francis Herbert Hedge

Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path.

~ Anthony Joshua

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.

~ Steve Jurvetson

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

~ Kirstie Alley

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

~ Richard Wagner

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

~ James Branch Cabell

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

~ David Starr Jordan

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

~ William Blum

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

~ Pat Buckley

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

~ Mohamed Elbaradei

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

~ Mitt Romney

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

~ Gertrude Stein

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

~ Craig Brown

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

~ Mary Douglas

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

~ Annie Dillard

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

~ David Bowie

The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.

~ Lisa Lampanelli

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

~ Lionel Richie

It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.

~ Eavan Boland

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

~ John Ruskin

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

~ Edward Wood

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

~ James A. Michener

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

~ Vaclav Klaus

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

~ Cliff Stearns