Famous Quotes
- Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
- Jesse Ventura on Religion
- Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
- Robert Shea on Religion
- Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
- Ruth St. Denis on Religion
- Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
- William Pennington on Religion
- Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
- Tim Bishop on Religion
- Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
- King Hussein I on Religion
- Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
- Charles Baudelaire on Religion
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Honore De Balzac on Religion
- Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
- Guy De Maupassant on Religion
- People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
- Zachary Levi on Religion
- People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
- Charles De Secondat on Religion
- People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
- Samuel Butler on Religion
- People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
- Rachel Weisz on 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.
- Carrie-Anne Moss on Religion
- Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
- Cliff Stearns on Religion
- Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
- Thomas Paine on Religion
- Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
- Erykah Badu on Religion
- Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
- Al Goldstein on Religion
- Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Religion
- Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
- Danny Masterson on Religion
- Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
- Theodore White on Religion
- Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
- George Will on Religion
- Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
- Andrew Greeley on Religion
- Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard on Religion
- Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
- E. Stanley Jones on Religion
- Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
- Philip James Bailey on Religion
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
- Francis Of Assisi on Religion
- Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
- William Blake on Religion
- Real religion is no religion at all.
- Lauryn Hill on Religion
- Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
- Paul Tournier on Religion
- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Religion
- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Religion
- Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
- Eddie Izzard on Religion
- Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Religion
- Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
- Alexis Carrel on Religion
- Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
- Pat Buckley on Religion
- Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
- 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 on Religion
- 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 on Religion
- Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
- Robert Green Ingersoll on Religion
- Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
- Jonathan Sacks on Religion
- Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
- William Robertson Smith on Religion
- Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
- Larry David on Religion
- Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
- Edward Bond on Religion
- Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- John Updike on Religion
- Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
- William Barclay on Religion
- Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- James Madison on Religion
- Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
- Ziggy Marley on Religion
- Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
- Larry Flynt on Religion
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