Religion Quotes

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
Will Oldham

Music, Making, Call

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
Robert Shea

Enough, Behavior, Worse

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.
Robert Shea

Freedom, End, Down

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
Don Henley

Politics, Women, Men

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
Michael Berryman

History, War, Book

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
Tom T. Hall

Jewish, Catholic, Baptist

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.
Tom T. Hall

Strange, Wonderful, Name

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.
Tom T. Hall

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Simon Callow

Human, Situation, Interested

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Tim Bishop

Nation, Leaders, Race

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
Jerry Costello

Faith, Great, Courage

People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
Zachary Levi

Place, Talk, Hollywood

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Hans Kung

Age, Sex, Political

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
Ernest Gaines

Love, Great, Strength

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
Toni Cade Bambara

Technology, Living, Might

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Flora Lewis

Freedom, May, Democracy

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Allen Tate

Values, Technique, Sole

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
Harvey Cox

Live, Human, Done

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.
Doug E. Fresh

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
David Hilbert

Time, Science, May

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Joseph Lancaster

Knowledge, Mind, Blessed

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Maria Monk

Experience, Knowledge, Ignorance

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell

Love, Good, May

It was part of your religion to hate the British.
Rebecca Harding Davis

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.
Phillip E. Johnson

Life, Tyranny, Majority

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