- Think
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- 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
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama's respect for the Constitution does not extend to freedom of religion - his administration has forced religious businessowners to pay for insurance plans that cover activities in violation of religious precepts.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
- Dividing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soccer, more often than not, helps to unite the world. What this Muslim ban is doing is dividing it: separating 'Us' and 'Them' to another degree, adding more division to a country that already struggles with race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
- Excelled
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- Nov 07, 2020