Famous Quotes
- If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
- Martin Amis on Religion
- If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'
- Tom Cruise on Religion
- If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Religion
- If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
- Salman Rushdie on Religion
- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
- Margaret Atwood on Religion
- If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
- Ziggy Marley on Religion
- If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
- H. P. Lovecraft on Religion
- If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Khalil Gibran on Religion
- If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart on Religion
- If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
- Paul Harris on Religion
- If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
- Edmond De Goncourt on Religion
- If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
- William Jennings Bryan on Religion
- If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
- Blaise Pascal on Religion
- If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
- If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
- If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Dalai Lama on Religion
- If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
- Madeleine Albright on Religion
- If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
- James A. Michener on Religion
- If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
- Naguib Mahfouz on Religion
- If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
- Denise Mina on Religion
- If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
- Dennis Prager on Religion
- If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
- Thomas Aquinas on Religion
- Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
- Paul Davies on Religion
- In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
- William Robertson Smith on Religion
- In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
- William Robertson Smith on Religion
- In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
- Rupert Sheldrake on Religion
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Religion
- In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
- Paul Harris on Religion
- In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
- Johan Huizinga on Religion
- In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
- Charles Eastman on Religion
- In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
- George J. Mitchell on Religion
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
- Chinua Achebe on Religion
- In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
- Carol P. Christ on Religion
- In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
- David Herbert Donald on Religion
- In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
- Lord Chesterfield on Religion
- In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
- Anna Jameson on Religion
- In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
- Carol P. Christ on Religion
- In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
- Noah Webster on Religion
- In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
- Hillary Clinton on Religion
- In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
- Alan Watts on Religion
- In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
- Alexander Hamilton on Religion
- In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Religion
- In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
- Paul Davies on Religion
- In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
- Kofi Annan on Religion
- In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
- Cat Stevens on Religion
- 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.
- Richard M. Nixon on Religion
- In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
- Tom C. Clark on Religion
- In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
- Jane Smiley on Religion
- In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Religion
- In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.
- Jonathan Sacks on Religion
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