John Lennon Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

• You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

  John Lennon

  Bullying, Kids, Not Caring

• Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, March 04, 1966.

• Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  John Lennon

  Faith, Jesus, Rock And Roll

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.15, Omnibus Press

• Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.

  John Lennon

  Life, Country, People

  "Imagine" (song) (1971)

• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "God" (song) (1970)

• We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

  John Lennon

  Evil, Political, Religion

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 226), 2000.

• Instant Karma is going to get you.

  John Lennon

  Karma, Religious, Religion

• The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

  John Lennon

  Government, People, Political

• We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

  John Lennon

  Political, Religion, Politician

• People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.

  John Lennon

  Christian, Dog, Teacher

• I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Sorry, Taken

  News conference in Chicago, August 11, 1966.

• Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, War, Guitar

  "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" by The Beatles, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969.

• Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

  John Lennon

  Religious, Talking, Bye

• Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

  John Lennon

  Atheist, Heaven, Religion

  "Imagine" (song) (1971)

• I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that.

  John Lennon

  Believe, Ideas, Political

• The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

  John Lennon

  Wall, Mean, People

• I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

  John Lennon

  Political, Religion, Status Quo

  "John Lennon's lost six-hour interview" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2009.

• I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years.

  John Lennon

  Years, Political, Religion

• I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

  John Lennon

  Thinking, Names, Political

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 226), 2000.

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