Religion quotes

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Religion is induced insanity.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.