Top 1200 Comparative Religion Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

I'll tell you this: Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have, for religion -we protect religion- and talk about a lifestyle choice! That is absolutely a choice. Gay people don't choose to be gay. At what age did you choose not to be gay?

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

The comparative strength of each piece depends entirely on circumstance; their movements are so different that it is essentially impossible to effectively compare them on anything other than a case-by-case basis.

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, #? humility .

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.

There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums - poems, literature, film, and journalism.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon it, as if it were a real defect; to be elated or vain upon it is showing your money before people in want.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

I honor the sanctity of all religions - I'm not here to put them down. But the only religion that I personally embrace is the religion of kindness.

I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert me, I have, you know, nothing - and to interfere with the rights of people to believe other religions or to not believe in any religion at all - as long as they mind their own religion - perfectly all right with me...

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.