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Religion Quotes
"I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said."
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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
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"Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it."
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"Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere."
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"They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine."
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"The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another."
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"To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written."
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
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"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
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"I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality."
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"The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce..."
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"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."
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"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him."
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"Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion."
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"It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them."
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"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
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"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion."
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"I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort."
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"While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships."
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
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"St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples."
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"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!"
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"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."
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"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."
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"The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place."
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"Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography."
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"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
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"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
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"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."
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"Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice."
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"No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy."
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"This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians."
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