Sacred Traditions Quotes

I respect and honor all four great Prophets: Jesus Christ, Mohamed, Moses and Buddha, so that I can appeal to any one of them in heaven

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Do not suppose the statements of the Prophets to be true; they are all fabrications.

All holy days, no matter the religion with which they are associated, contain lessons for all humanity.

Genesis fans are a religious group!

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.

While the world may be dramatizing, the Scientologists are out there, making the “Saints of yesteryear”, look like little children

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

My religion, that's who I am.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.