Quotes about Religion

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

joy is evidence of God.

Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.

I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.

Evolution is the idea some people have to explain life without God.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Because there is one God, all people are related to that one God on equal terms. The central command of that one God is to love neighbors—to treat others as we would like them to treat us, as expressed in the Golden Rule. We cannot claim any rights for ourselves and our group that we are not willing to give to others. Whether as a stance of the heart or as outward practice, religion cannot be coerced.[217]

The cure against Christian violence is not less of the Christian faith, but, in a carefully qualified sense, more of the Christian faith. I don't mean, of course, that the cure against violence lies in increased religious zeal; blind religious zeal is part of the problem. Instead, it lies in stronger and more intelligent commitment to the Christian faith as faith.

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3—7).