Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous Religion sayings and Religion Quotes - Chapter 5
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it's a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it's a risk. If you discuss religion, it's a risk. But you can't really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I'm committed to that society... and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.
Music is my religion.
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.
I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
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.
Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
We all are Indians, and that should be our only religion. What is the need to be called a Hindu, Muslim, or Christian? Does anybody have any religion or caste at the time of birth?
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.
One man's cult is another man's religion.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Religion is a very delicate subject in Lebanon. You have to know how to say things in a very delicate way in order to be accepted.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don't practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life.
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
I believe religion is man-made.
I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.
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