Religion Quotes

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift.

Me personally as a man is nothing without the inspiration of JAH.

What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

Me can't tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread.

I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin, We could plan a murder, Or start a religion.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.