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Religion Quotes (page 3)

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. Karen Armstrong
Julian Barnes quote: "Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten,..."
Religion decays, the icon remains; a narrative is forgotten, yet its representation still magnetizes. Julian Barnes
Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest. Alfred North Whitehead
Bono quote: "Religion often gets in the way of God."
Religion often gets in the way of God. Bono
Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,'... Christopher Hitchens
Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it. Fareed Zakaria
H. L. Mencken quote: "Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious..."
Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities. H. L. Mencken
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values. Reinhold Niebuhr
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko Frank Herbert
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies."
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies. Thomas Jefferson
George Carlin quote: "Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for..."
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. George Carlin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he... George Carlin
Voltaire quote: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool."
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool. Voltaire
Jon Stewart quote: "Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality."
Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. Jon Stewart
Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed. Jodi Picoult

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