"Religion" Quotes . Top 28 Short Quotes About "Religion"

"A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life."

--- A. L. Rowse

#Religion #Orchard #Spirituality

"Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil."

--- A. Powell Davies

#People #Religion #Piety

"I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many."

--- A. Whitney Brown

#Religion #Born #Knows

"Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Religion #Brainwash #Atheism

"Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal."

--- A.C. Grayling

#Abuse #Religion #Scandal

"I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Thinking #Reason #Non Believer

"If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance."

--- A.J. Ayer

#Religion #Term #Transcendent

"If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah."

--- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

#Stealing #Religion #Heart Break

"A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'"

--- Aaron Arrowsmith

#Religion #Asks #Proof That God Exists

"I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches."

--- Aaron Neville

#People #Religion #Catholic

"There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life."

--- Abba Hillel Silver

#Religion #Aspiration #Adventure

"The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Ties Of Love #Religion #Love

"My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world."

--- Abdul Sattar Edhi

#Religion #World #Charity

"All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion."

--- Abdurrahman Wahid

#Lenient #Religion #Value Systems

"I acknowledge myself a unitarian"

--- Abigail Adams

#Religion #Acknowledge #Unitarian

"It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former."

--- Abigail McCarthy

#Religion #People #Latter

"A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."

--- Abigail Van Buren

#Religion #Saints And Sinners #Hospitality

"Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper."

--- Abigail Van Buren

#Religion #Pipe #May

"And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below."

--- Abraham Cowley

#Religion #Care #Catholic

"Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion."

--- Abraham Cowley

#Religion #Sin #Love

"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Religion #Passion #Compassion

"The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Religion #Dues #Isolation

"Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Religion #Affair #Stillness

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Thinking #Good Deeds #Religion

"In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Book #God And Country #Religion

"I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Dark Clouds #Religion #Clouds

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#There Is No God #Religion #I Can

"I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Followers #Religion #Cutting

28 "Religion" Quotes