Religion Quotes - Page 86

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

Every major world religion has identified marriage as between a man and a woman.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

This god, this one word: I.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.