Religion Quotes

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Leon Wieseltier

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

Lemuel K. Washburn

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Madeleine Albright

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Atwood

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field...

Marina Abramovic

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Mary Astell

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Muhammad Ali

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism o...

Mustafa Akyol

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

Mel Brooks

According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is right in the heart of this spiritual-creative belt of energy.

Melody Beattie

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

Michael Behe

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

Michael Berryman

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

Monica Bellucci

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna Ciccone

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

Madonna Ciccone

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Margaret Cho

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

Michael Caine

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Mary Douglas