Religion quotations

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◆ Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

- Albert Camus99

◆ When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

- Desmond Tutu99

◆ When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

- Anais Nin99

◆ Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

- Francis of Assisi99

◆ For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

- Jesus Christ99

◆ Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

- Pope Francis99

◆ The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

- Thomas Paine99

◆ Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

- Soren Kierkegaard99

◆ Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar99

◆ The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

- Galileo Galilei99

◆ God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

- Saint Augustine99

◆ I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

- Galileo Galilei99

◆ I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

- Frederick Douglass99