1500 Religion Quotes for You to Enjoy

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too. Julian Baggini

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Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. Julian Casablancas

Religion People Problem Power Never Gain Use Who

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. Julian Clary

Religion Spiritual Side Kind More Personal Pagan Found Satisfy Things

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing. Julian Schnabel

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. Julianna Baggott

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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. Junius

Politics Religion Others Ourselves Well Mistaken Holy Convince Persuading Zeal

Religion and God are totally separate. Religion is created by government. God is God. KRS-One

God Government Religion Totally Created Separate

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought. Kabir Bedi

Wrestling is a lot like any other workplace. You don't really talk religion or politics. But we are all independent contractors, so we pay our taxes quarterly. And we talk about taxes. Kane

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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. Karen Armstrong

God Religion Concept Very Which Search Necessarily External

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful. Karen Armstrong

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

Religion Think Way Bent Developed Over Curb Did Precisely Human Human Beings Centuries Reasons Beings Now Why

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. Karen Armstrong

Art Religion You Cooking Sex Too Bad Some Just Forms

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. Karin Slaughter

Life Religion Sex Make Southerner Being Interested Interesting Things Violence

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion Dig Everywhere More Absolutely Always Unfathomable Deeply

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Future Religion Dignified Philosophy Plato

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. Kary Mullis

Religion Focused Only Driven Inwardly Itself Sustain

Muslim women deplore misogyny just as western women do, and they know that Islamic societies also oppress them; why wouldn't they? But liberation, for them does not encompass destroying their identity, religion, or culture, and many of them want to retain the veil. Katharine Viner

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it. Kathie Lee Gifford

Religion People Stumble Easy Over Over It Many Right

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives. Kathryn Harrison

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