Best 8213 quotes in «religion quotes» category

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.

Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society.

Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you

Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as it may be in its present form from the Inquisition, it differs from it only in degree.

I thank the Lord for the night time.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity, but never keep any record of how many they drive away from Christ!

It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a man impressed as fully and strongly as he ought to be with the belief of a God, his moral life would be regulated by the force of belief; he would stand in awe of God and of himself, and would not do the thing that could not be concealed from either.

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.

It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

It is a mystery to me how a theologian can be praised for having brought himself to disbelieve dogmas. I've always thought that those who have brought themselves to believe in dogmas merit the true recognition owing a heroic deed.

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.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

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

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world - a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man.