Quotes on Religion

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

I was raised a black child in the South, where you're indoctrinated into a religion that an oppressor gave you.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.

Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.