Quotes about religion
religion matter makers
My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself. Mahatma Gandhi
religion islam christianity
It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.
religion demand may
I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.
religion travesty superiors
It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
religion cows matter
It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.
religion cowardice force
To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.
religion earth faces
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.
religion expediency highest
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.
religion balance income
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
religion should
Religion should be dearer than life itself.
religion different different-roads
Religions are different roads converging to the same point.
religion revolution
My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone! John Adams
religion vicious ruthless
Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless. Eric Hoffer
religion duration eternal-life
Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death. Ludwig Wittgenstein
religion respect
I don't have a religion, but I respect them. Paul Watson
religion world honest
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. Thomas Jefferson
religion orthodox-christianity separation-of-church-and-state
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
religion known
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
religion may evidence
I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.
religion atheism worship
Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority. Stephen Colbert
religion bills bill-o-reilly
Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.
religion society church
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. Thomas B. Macaulay
religion awake hippopotamus
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
religion atheism christianity
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
religion atheism doe
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have a positive, a declared assent to all of their interested absurdities. My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.
religion should evidence
Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology. William J. Clinton
religion helping cry
All religions begin with the cry Help. William James
religion firsts needs
Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
religion chapters egotism
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
religion atheism maintaining
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. Will Durant
religion atheism wish
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... Richard Dawkins
religion mystery inventing-things
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Richard P. Feynman
religion conservative should
All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic. Richard John Neuhaus