Top 1200 Religion And Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.

The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

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?

Personal evolution has nothing to do with art, it's never. Art is a sine curve: dark and light change permanently, in cumulative radicalism. Art decides what to do. The choice of colors is made by the colors themselves. The evolution of art is the evolution of the future itself.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover 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.

The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

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?

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

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

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

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Religion is man-made. Every religion says my 'God is the best.'

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

You don't need religion to have morals. If you can't decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

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.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholeness' or 'oneness,' the experiencing of which should be revelatory - both for the artist and the spectator - something akin to the experience of enlightenment in terms of religion.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

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

There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

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

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

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

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

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

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

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...

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

Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world

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

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

There's no room in my life for religion. Religion is separation and segregation of God. How can you segregate the Almighty?

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

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

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen.

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

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

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