Top 1200 Jewish Religion Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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

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

I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

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.

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

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.

Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

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.

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

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

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.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

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

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

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

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

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

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

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

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

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

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

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

I went to church as a boy, and then I quite quickly stepped away from religion. But I remained fascinated by the need people have for religion.

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.

Imagine if today, they invented a religion that advocated the killing of gays. We would not tolerate that. However, Islam is a religion that advocates that.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews.

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

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

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

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 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.

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

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

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

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

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.

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

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

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

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it.

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

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.