Quotes about Religion
God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
— Paulo Coelho
Religion teaches that faith and transformation are the only ways of drawing near to God. Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.
— Paulo Coelho
God is always close to us, whether we pray to him or not.
— Paulo Coelho
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
— Desmond Tutu
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
— Aldous Huxley
Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.
— Aldous Huxley
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
— CS Lewis
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
— George Eliot
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
— Madeleine L'Engle
True Christianity is nothing but the continual dependence upon God through Christ for all life, light, and virtue; and the false religion of Satan is to seek that goodness from any other source. So
— William Law