religion Quotes

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.