Quotes of: Christian-religion Keyword

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Dawkins

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.

Ricardo Lagos

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

Ricky Martin

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Simon Callow

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Shirin Ebadi

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

Simon Schama

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Vera Farmiga

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Wilhelm Dilthey

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Walter Scott

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

Richard Dawkins

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Abraham Lincoln

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Alexander Hamilton

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Christopher Lasch

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

Wale

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

Life

Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.

Life

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense.

William Bates