“Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.”
Religion asks the biggest questions and offers answers that millions of people organize their lives around. These quotes approach faith traditions with respect and curiosity, exploring belief, doubt, ritual, and the search for something larger than yourself.
“Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.”
“Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.”
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
“I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'”
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.”
“I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.”
“One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.”
“Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.”
“The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.”
“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.”
“No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.”
“I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.”
“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”
“Yoga is not a religion to me.”
“What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.”