- Nov 07, 2020
Religion Quotes
Belief looked at from every angle.
Some of these come from personal family history with church and faith, others take a harder look at how religion gets used or misused. For quotes on trust and conviction, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.
- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020