Religion Quotes - page 9

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion. (John Stuart Mill)
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. View quote
Warren Weaver
Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too. View quote
Studs Terkel
The national religion in the United States is worship of all things military. And journalists are its high priests. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. View quote
Václav Klaus
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. View quote
William Ralph Inge
Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. (Eric Hoffer)
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them. View quote
Kathleen Norris
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print. View quote
Dave Barry
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values. View quote
Carroll Quigley
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. View quote
Charles Simic
We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. (Avicenna)
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt