1,039 Quotes Regarding Religion


I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Richard John Neuhaus

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
Craig Bruce

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
Shirin Ebadi

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
Tina Turner

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
Mary Astell

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Ruth St. Denis

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
Pat Buckley

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Barbara Walters

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
Gary Locke

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
Josh McDowell

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
Herbert Read

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Herbert Read

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Herbert Read