Religious Quotes - page 3

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. (Bob Dylan)
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. View quote
Aiden Wilson Tozer
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. View quote
Scott Adams
Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God. View quote
Ernest Gaines
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. View quote
Dave Barry
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. (Carroll Quigley)
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. View quote
J. D. Salinger
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The meaning of religious truth is hope. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
The religious world is but the reflex of the real world. View quote
Karl Marx
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. View quote
Sigmund Freud
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. View quote
Albert Einstein
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. View quote
Albert Einstein
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it. View quote
Tony Blair
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. (Martha Beck)
Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola. View quote
Robert Shea
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando