Religion quotes

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Wars have always started over religion.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.