Religion Quotes
Quotes about Religion
482 quotes
- “I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity ...” — Mercedes Lackey, Burning Water
- “I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know ev...” — Philip Pullman
- “This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are gener...” — Diana Wynne Jones
- “Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still...” — Ilona Andrews, Fate's Edge
- “I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand ...” — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- “I believe in good and evil,"said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitc...” — Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
- “Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying"the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements wi...” — Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking The Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon
- “The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-sea...” — Pema Chödrön
- “Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertilit...” — Merlin Stone, When God Was A Woman
- “If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are v...” — Sam Harris
- “Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the oth...” — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
- “To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for theexistence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God...” — George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
- “With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the ex...” — C.g. Jung
- “Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, remi...” — Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- “Tie me up, please..."Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the...” — Jess C. Scott, Catholic School Girls Rule
- “religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes...” — Wm. Paul Young
- “The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of ...” — Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- “Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and go...” — Celia Rivenbark, Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
- “The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind o...” — Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
- “You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacr...” — Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
- “The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of th...” — Dinesh D'souza, What's So Great About Christianity
- “All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a c...” — Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
- “I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them....” — George Carlin
- “The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could...” — Dallas Willard, The Spirit Of The Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives
- “I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no con...” — Isabel Allende, Mi País Inventado: Un Paseo Nostálgico Por Chile
- “We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be j...” — Michael Polanyi, Meaning
- “I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more ...” — Eric Clapton
- “To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobb...” — Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
- “The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and c...” — John Piper, The Passion Of Jesus Christ
- “Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Chris...” — Edward Abbey, Postcards From Ed: Dispatches And Salvos From An American Iconoclast
- “Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. T...” — Christopher Hitchens
- “Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves...” — Orhan Pamuk, Snow
- “No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Onl...” — Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
- “People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang a...” — Neil Degrasse Tyson
- “Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, ...” — Philip Pullman
- “A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a t...” — Elie Wiesel
- “For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly ha...” — Karl Rahner
- “People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are j...” — Tana French, In The Woods
- “The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others li...” — Brian Cox
- “The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the co...” — Emma Goldman, Anarchism And Other Essays
- “I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare o...” — Ruth Hurmence Green
- “I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no s...” — Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov
- “Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the ...” — Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
- “I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of ...” — Brandon Sanderson
- “Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God...” — Carl Sagan, Contact
- “Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our ...” — Thomas Paine, The Age Of Reason
- “No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take ev...” — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger In A Strange Land
- “You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don...” — Joseph Smith Jr.
- “According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it ...” — G.k. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- “If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that ...” — Penn Jillette, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be An Atheist And Other Magical Tales