Top 1200 Religion In Society Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

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

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

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

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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

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

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever 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.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

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

Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.

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

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