Religious Change Quotes

I want to see the United States become a Muslim country.

Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.

In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.

Whosoever changes his religion [Islam] and deviates from it, award him the death sentence

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

All religions undergo historical face lifts.

The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

There is an ideology problem in Islam. We need to revolutionize our religion.

Prior to the Revolution, the Episcopal Church was established by law in this State. On the Declaration of independence it was left with all other sects, to a self-support. And no doubt exists that there is much more of religion among us now than there ever was before the change; and particularly in the Sect which enjoyed the legal patronage. This proves rather more than, that the law is not necessary to the support of religion.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw, but it was only one of many. For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

There is a Christian I am fighting against. I want to bring about an environment where all are Islamic because our people are lost.

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.