Religion Quotes - Page 22

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Religion is the opiate of the people.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.