Religion Quotes

It's kind of limiting using your intellect to write songs like Brown Sugar, isn't it? The only thing I'm really interested in is comparative religion and ancient history.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people 'find it.'

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

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.