Religion quotes

“The truth is what everybody accepts. Right, Owen? I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.”
Madeleine Stowe - Kathryn Railly

“You may be shocked by these words, but I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and prayed to the same God with fellow Muslims whose eyes were blue, whose hair was blond and whose skin was the whitest of whites. And we are brothers, truly.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“I was very ill last summer. For a while, I thought I was a goner. I woke up one night in my hospital bed, and I saw, standing there, a tall man, wearing a white robe, with a long white beard. I said, 'Who are you?' He said, 'I am the HolyGhost.' I said, 'Where are the Father and the Son?' He said, 'They're out of town.' I'm not a religious man,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harry Ruby

“- Commander Adams: Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.
- Dr. Morbius: I'm not a monster, you...
- Commander Adams: We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!”
Leslie William Nielsen - Commander Adams
Walter Pidgeon - Dr. Morbius

“- Ben Harper: What religion do you profess, preacher?
- Rev. Harry Powell: The religion the Almighty and me worked out betwixt us.”
Peter Graves - Ben Harper
Robert Mitchum - Harry Powell

“People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.”
Zachary Levi

“- Phil Green: Some people hate Catholics, some people hate Jews.
- Tommy Green: And no one hates us because we're Americans.”
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green
Dean Stockwell - Tommy Green

“- Professor Fred Lieberman: Millions of people nowadays are religious only in the vaguest sense. I've often wondered why the Jews among them still go on calling themselves Jews. Do you know, Mr. Green?
- Phil Green: No, but I'd like to.
- Professor Fred Lieberman: Because the world still makes it an advantage not to be one. Thus it becomes a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sam Jaffe - Professor Fred Lieberman
Gregory Peck - Philip Schuyler Green

“- Sherlock Holmes: When a man collects books on a subject, they're usually grouped together, but notice, your King James Bible, your Book of Mormon, and Koran are separate, across the room in fact, from your Hebrew Bible and Talmud, which sit on your desk. Now these books have a special importance for you not connected with a general study of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicol Williamson - Sherlock Holmes
Alan Arkin - Dr. Sigmund Freud

“Miss Piggott! Please keep in mind that it's Sunday, and this is a Catholic country!”

Jack Lemmon - Wendell Armbruster, Jr.

Most religions believe that by crying, "Lord, Lord!" often enough, they can contrive to enter the kingdom of heaven. A flock of trained parrots could just as readily cry the same thing with just as little chance of success.
Oliver Reed - Urbain Grandier

“Religion has ruined human beings, because your God teaches people to deny the tiger in themselves. Turns us all into a throng of slaves, too shameful to acknowledge it.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- William Cecil: Madam, if I may speak? While she is on this island, she must bow to you, not to Rome. Our Catholics must know that a papist will never again sit on the English throne.
- Queen Elizabeth I: What would you suggest?
- William Cecil: Kill her hope, and hopeless, she may return to the comfort of the continent.”

Guy Pearce - William Cecil
Margot Robbie - Queen Elizabeth I

“I’m a religious woman, there’s no question, but I have also been to medical school. And, well, you can say that I hold science in one hand and God in the other, and that is not always an easy balance.”
Cherry Jones - Dr. Muldoon

“You can give someone your delusion, Sara. That's religion.”
Tilda Swinton - Dr. Klemperer

“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.”
Butterfly McQueen

“Help me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me!”
Will Ferrell - Ricky Bobby

“I love Jesus Christ and his mother Mary as much as anybody. About 38 churches you could move that creche to, everybody lives.”
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson

“- Mark Baum's Mom: Then what's the problem, rabbi?
- Rabbi: It's the reason Mark is studying so hard. He's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God!
- Mark Baum's Mom: So has he found any?”

Carrie Lazar - Mark Baum's Mom
David Zalkind - Rabbi

“- Harlan: I'm converting to a Catholic.
- Lillian: And I'm converting to a blonde.”
Dennis Lipscomb - Harlan
Debbie Harry - Lillian

“The cross is bloodstained. It loves. It forgives. It demands.”
Ted McGinley - Matthew

“For a Muslim woman, marriage is a lilting dance of duality, strength and submission. Beautiful, selfless, rapturous love of two masters, the carnal and the divine. The life a Muslim woman lives is a dangerous and difficult one. If she does not submit to her husband, there is a spot reserved for her in Hell. Yes. My husband kissed me before he...” (continue)(continue reading)
Melissa Benoist - Katherine Russell

“Sometimes the brain is still active for a few minutes after the beheading. But to be honest, I can't imagine a worse kind of hell. And unfortunately, hell is probably where he'll end up because the Christians don't look too kindly on the whole Force thing.”
Alex Borstein - Lois Griffin as Princess Leia

“- Eddie Mannix: Bless me, father, for I have sinned.
- Priest: How long since your last confession, son?
- Eddie Mannix: 27 hours.
- Priest: It's really too often. You're not that bad.”
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix
Robert Pike Daniel - Catholic Clergyman

“You believe in the angels or the saints or there's such a thing as a state of grace. And you believe it, but it's got nothing to do with reality. It's just an idea.”
Sean Penn - Terry Noonan