1,039 Quotes Regarding Religion


But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
Alfred de Vigny

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
Norma McCorvey

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.
Rupert Sheldrake

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.
Anjelica Huston

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
Thomas Keneally

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
Gene Robinson

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
David O. Selznick

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Gene Robinson

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Tom Tancredo

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.
Louise Mensch

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.
Sheryl Lee

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
Giovanni Ribisi

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
John Paul Stevens

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Linda Chavez

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
Hunter Parrish

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey