Religion Quotes

I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful.

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.