Religion Quotes - Page 53

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental trials than those of nonbelief. It is quite difficult to ascertain the wishes of an invisible being.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Why, the only reason for religion is that it can make you, keep you safe. If religion weren't true, then there would be no salvation, no comfort for being alive and alone, there would be nothing but living and dying - no, that cannot be so ... of course religion is true and will save me.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.