Quotes of: Christian-religion Keyword

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Yann Martel

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Jane Eyre

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

Journey to the End of Islam

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Just Kids

I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all right.

Keeping Faith

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Rights of Man

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

The Sound and the Fury

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Small Gods

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Shoeless Joe

All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.

Molly Withers and the Golden Tree

I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.

My Beloved World

But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The October Country

I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Lavinia