Religion Quotes - Page 103

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

Organizing atheists is like hurding cats

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use them to verify or discredit whatever theory may have been advanced concerning them, so it is the province of a living theology to be constantly seeking from God the wit and wisdom that will interpret anew and more truly the parable of life.

the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.