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"1154 Religion Quotes

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Banning Course Intolerant Never
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

Based Blindly Book Evidence
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Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Christ Disagree Followers Love
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We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Allowed Been Brought Criticise
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

About Absolutely American Being
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Against Childhood Crime Religion
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Theater Temple Religion Faith
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Absurd Argument Been Christian
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Companion Lay Lays Many
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Affirmation Deity One Thing Practiced
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I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.

Aware Christian Ethiopia Grow
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The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Guitar Important Important Part Most
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Conditions Creature Heart Heartless
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Cannot Deal Human Human Mind
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Abolition First Happiness People
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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Else Everyday Everything Everything Else
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Man Nothing Religious Religious Man
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Attitude Being Celebrated Ceremony
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Your spiritual journey is not much of a journey of discovery but of recovery. You are uncovering your own inner nature. It is already there. Don’t allow anyone sell to you what was stolen from your pocket.

Spiritual Journey Discovery Recovery
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Turn to Lord and cast your cares and burdens unto Him. Let go of your sinful habits, for He is ever ready to forgive and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. He is the God of a second chance.

Lord Cares Burden Unto him
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A true disciple of Jesus is not possessed by their possessions.

Disciple Jesus Possessed Possessions
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Our God is too faithful & when you seek Him, you find Him. All we need in this life is in the Bible. The word of God has everything

God Faithful Seek him Find him
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Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Aggression Forced Great Nothing
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Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

Better Sleep Sober cannibal Christian
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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

Away Religious Run Should
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The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Church Democratic Democratic Party Line
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Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

Abortion Catholic Catholics Church
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I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

Actually Church Figure Johnson
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It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.

Certain Disagree Discussed Feel
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Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Begets Confidence Religious Sentiments
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Aid Flourishes Government Greater
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In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Been Churches Guardians Instance
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Bondage Enterprise Every Mind
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The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

America Black Black America Filmmakers
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The black church will accept anybody.

Accept Anybody Black Church
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I have my own religion. My conception of religion is being to the other fellow what you would like for him to be to you and do what you think is necessary to be the type of man that God could appreciate

Own religion My conception Fellow God
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The anointing obliterates every yoke of bondage until there is no evidence left that the yoke ever existed. You have that anointing in your life ... Accept it, believe it and confess it

Anointing Bondage Yoke Your life
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There is a way of escape. Jesus is the way of escape. Find him and you have found joy for you and your family.

Escape Jesus Find joy Family
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Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Men have Religion Science Methodical comparisons
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Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

Religious representations Collective realities
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Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

Religious phenomena Fundamental categories Beliefs Rites
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Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

Man seek Cohesion Religious society
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In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Name Religion Many great Fine deeds
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If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

Any person Hand Strike down Religion
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True religion is not repressive, as life itself is not

True religion Repressive
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.

Religion Cradles Despotism
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In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Every religion Same extremists
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Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?

Religion Defending Physical integrity Fashion
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The Church is the only restraining force against evil! We stand against evil in the Name of Jesus

The church Force Evil We stand
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Mistake Attribute Religions Errors
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