992 private quotes tagged religion

“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”— John Woolman

“My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.”— Bill Keller

“The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.”— Jeffrey Kluger

“Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.”— Paul Davies

“Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.”— Rupert Sheldrake

“I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.”— Nick Rahall

“Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.”— Conor Cruise O'Brien

“I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.”— Jane Seymour

“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”— Christopher Lasch

“Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.”— Daniel Morgan

“More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.”— Charles Eastman

“Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.”— Bodhidharma

“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.”— H. P. Lovecraft

“Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.”— B. R. Ambedkar

“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”— Joseph Joubert

“There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.”— Jonathan Edwards

“Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.”— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.”— Katy Perry

“Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.”— Maimonides

“There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.”— Eugene Ionesco

“Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.”— Karen Armstrong

“Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.”— Trey Parker

“I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.”— Angie Harmon

“So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.”— Rainn Wilson

“It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.”— H. P. Blavatsky