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Religion Quotes
"In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees."
108
"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me."
86
"The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence."
77
"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion."
68
"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."
65
"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
59
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
59
"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science."
55
"Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible."
50
"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."
50
"I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire."
50
"You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature."
49
"True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation."
45
"Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy."
44
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
44
"All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many."
43
"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization."
43
"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion."
41
"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."
39
"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
39
"Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes."
36
"Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial."
35
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
34
"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."
33
"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."
33
"It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself."
31
"If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless."
29
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
29
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
28
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