Top 1200 Religion In Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.

I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to be a religion designer. I'd like people come up to me and say, I need a religion. I'd go talk to them for a while, and I'd design a religion for them. That would be a great job. There's a need for people like that. Fortunately, seeing that one can't actually do it, I get paid for sort of making them up anyway.

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?

As far as the matters of religion are concerned we know for sure that only Islam is the true religion in the eyes of God. In 3:85 it is mentioned that God will never accept any religion other than Islam. As far as the building of churches or temples is concerned, how can we allow this when their religion is wrong? And when worship is also wrong? Thus we will surely not allow such wrong things in our country.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.

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

In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

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

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world.

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

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

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

Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.

My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.

Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

It's the responsibility of men of religion to... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

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

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.

Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

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

You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion, that we shall discover truth, morality and reason. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from these remedies which nature advocates, far from curing; it only aggravates, perpetuates and multiplies them.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.