Religion Quote by Patricia Lockwood

“at best, religion generates comforting noises to mask the fact that someone is starving to death, or is dying of cholera, or has had…

— P.Z. Myers

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Can you imagine, on the Feast of Trumpets, here you are, practicing and shouting the praises of God, rehearsing His coming, and some year,…

— Mark Biltz

“Dance,' they told me, and I stood still, and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced. 'Pray,'…

— Wendell Berry

“Then it hits me. I’m actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings…

— Mary Karr

“The children with whom I worship are also fascinated with symbols of our faith.”

— Catherine Stonehouse

“Make your body a holy temple.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“There was something religious in grandmother's face, not in any sanctimoniously devout or ecstatic sense,but a look full of religious feeling, serenity and resignation.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“RELIGION is like a rocket. Use it to raise your consciousness only. Drop it when you are in your ORBIT.”

— Nishant Dutt

“I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that…

— Anthony de Mello S.J

“Let your body be your holy temple.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita