Quotes about Religion
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
- Eugene Peterson
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!
- Thomas Paine
Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
- Philip Appleman
The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.
- Francis Frangipane
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
- Desmond Tutu
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
- Elbert Hubbard
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
- Alexander Hamilton
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.
- Joyce Meyer
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
- Ben Carson
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.