“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.”
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.
“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.”
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.”
“When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.”
“I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.”
“I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.”
“Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.”
“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.”
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
“After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.”
“Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.”
“In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.”
“I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?”
“The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.”
“Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.”
“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.”
“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”