Quotes about Religion

We don't become praising people by avoiding or skipping or denying the pain and the poverty and the doubt and the guilt but by entering into them, exploring them, minding their significance, embracing the reality of these experiences. That is what is so distressing about the religious entertainment industry in our land.

There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.

I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus.