Quotes about Religion
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
— Mark Twain
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.
— Desmond Tutu
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider to be God-fearing and pious.
— Aristotle
The nobelest expenditure is that which is made in the Divine Service
— Aristotle
If humans could not be rid of religion, it was argued, then let them at least not be harmed by it.
— Arthur C. Clarke
What is the New Testament? A handbook for those who are to be sacrificed.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.
— George W. Bush
Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.
— Gloria Gaither
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
— Henry David Thoreau
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.
— Jimmy Carter