It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery. Patrick Henry
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage? John Quincy Adams
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. Steve Earle
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. Lewis Mumford
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. Herbert Hoover
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. Paul Ryan
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. Gordon B. Hinckley
Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer. Anthony Hopkins
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. Albert Einstein
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Mahatma Gandhi
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. Lance Bass
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. Herbert Read
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. Paul Tillich
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. Friedrich Nietzsche
Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions. Fabiola Gianotti
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. Bill Maher
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. Brian Eno
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. Marguerite Gardiner
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. Abdurrahman Wahid
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know. Sam Harris
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. Michelle Malkin
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. Lionel Blue
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. Tahar Ben Jelloun
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one. Marianne Williamson
I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015. Brad Feld
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion. Harvey Milk
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. Philip James Bailey
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. Denis Diderot
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. Bono
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. Narendra Modi
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind. Steven Seagal
The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when applied properly, does not discriminate by race, religion, or skin color. Markwayne Mullin
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. Robert Green Ingersoll
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion. Leonardo DiCaprio
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. Ulrich Beck
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. Angie Stone
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. Mary Garden
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. Annie Besant
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. Gene Tunney
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Khalil Gibran
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. Alice Walker
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. Christopher Hitchens
The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. Holly Hunter
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon. William Wallace
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. Swami Vivekananda
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Anthony Hopkins
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. William Barclay
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. Douglas Coupland
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. Martin Amis
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom. Myles Munroe
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did. Grace Jones
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. Vera Farmiga
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country. Najib Razak
Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God. Anne Graham Lotz
Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion. Mohsin Hamid
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. Robert Green Ingersoll
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. Alfred Russel Wallace
Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. Michael Eric Dyson
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. Theodore C. Sorensen
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. Brian Greene
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. George A. Smith
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. Billy Graham
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. H. P. Lovecraft
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. Josephine Baker
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama
Religion is just mind control. George Carlin
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.' Richard Wagner
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. Azar Nafisi
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. Richard Mentor Johnson
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. Taslima Nasrin
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him. Mahatma Gandhi
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. Erykah Badu
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and sciencee, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Camille Paglia
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. Penn Jillette
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. Sri Aurobindo
In the forefront of sciencee, there is not much difference between religion and sciencee. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously. Dan Shechtman
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. Margaret Cho
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. Julia Child
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion. Bob Inglis
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. David Hume
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. Noah Webster
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion. Daron Malakian
I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about. Trick Daddy
A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. Maimonides
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. Douglas William Jerrold
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. Serj Tankian
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. Ray Bradbury
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties. Dalai Lama
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them sciencee, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. Adam Hamilton
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to. Jane Elliot
Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me. Shashi Tharoor
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. Diane Paulus
For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion. Tyler, The Creator
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Richard Dawkins
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. Malcolm X
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. Sam Harris
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong. Hamza Yusuf
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. George Gurdjieff
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. Moses Mendelssohn
I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith. Ja Rule
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. Christopher Marlowe
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. Mahatma Gandhi
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium. Frank Sinatra
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. Voltaire
I love the horror genre for how cinematic it is. I gravitated, I think, initially, toward the horror genre because, of all the genres, I think it is the genre that is most friendly to the subject matter of faith and belief in religion. Scott Derrickson
I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation. Narendra Modi
So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. Narendra Modi
Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Cory Booker
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth. Ellen G. White
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. Ellen G. White
The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. Richard Engel
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. Barbara Ehrenreich
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you. Michelle Phan
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least. ASAP Rocky
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. Reza Aslan
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. Anita Diament
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell
As for my religion, I worship Jesus. Sun Yat-sen
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. Albert Einstein
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. Charles Eastman
I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country. Shahid Khan
Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes. Edmund Hillary
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion. Billy Graham
What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood. Radhanath Swami
I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I was really fortunate that I got to know Islam before it became a headline. Cat Stevens
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. Christy Turlington
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing. Abel Ferrara
I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time. Donny Osmond
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. Ville Valo
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. Kingsley Amis
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. Eugene Ionesco
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. Mohamed ElBaradei
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. Louis Kronenberger
Science without religion is lame, religion without sciencee is blind. Albert Einstein
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Mahatma Gandhi
If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy. Rob Gronkowski
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. David Mamet
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. B. R. Ambedkar
We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion. Erwin McManus
As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion. Lee Kuan Yew
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was. Reese Witherspoon
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion. Martin Gore
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. Elliott Abrams
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. Huston Smith
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw
I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world. Edward Brooke
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls. Steven Pinker
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin
It's a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was 'real' religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that's why it's completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices. Ann Leckie
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. Avicenna
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. George Washington
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. Stephen Harper
I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion. Gal Gadot
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. Bono
I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?' John Wesley
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. Pierre Beaumarchais
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln
I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion. Naomie Harris
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. Daisaku Ikeda
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. Philip Schaff
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing. Lee Strobel
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. David Bowie
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. Charles Baudelaire
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. Arthur Middleton
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. Mahatma Gandhi
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair. Peter Marshall
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including sciencee or religion, tried to answer that question. Paulo Coelho
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. Richard M. Nixon
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad sciencee. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. Rupert Sheldrake
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies. Raymond Sokolov
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Woodrow Wilson
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. Joseph Smith, Jr.
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. Richard Dawkins
We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries. Nikki Haley
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect. Abbas Kiarostami
I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way. Dave Chappelle
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. Pearl S. Buck
My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?' James Callis
I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people. Hazel Scott
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person. Pope Francis
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. Mary Augusta Ward
It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices. Kirk Cameron
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. Dwight L. Moody
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend. Adam Savage
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal. Roxane Gay
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. Julian Casablancas
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm. Liam Cunningham
For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period. Rodrigo Duterte
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu
I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. Jane Elliot
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. Viktor E. Frankl
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. Will Smith
I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. Tom Ford
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, sciencee, art, religion, etc. Friedrich Engels
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that. Sam Harris
You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control. Milo Yiannopoulos
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. Dalai Lama
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. Ricardo Montalban
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our sciencee, our religion. Ralph W. Sockman
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other. Feisal Abdul Rauf
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion. Ja Rule
Basic religion is the reason we have morals. Brandon Flowers
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. Charles de Secondat
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. Charles Eastman
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer. Garrison Keillor
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them. Lily Tomlin
Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. Cory Booker
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Abraham Lincoln
I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives. Gabriel Byrne
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. Benjamin Franklin
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. Ronald Reagan
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Taylor Swift
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. Mitt Romney
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. Mary Douglas
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, sciencee itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. Emile Durkheim
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. Eric Hoffer
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. B. R. Ambedkar
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion. Barbara Walters
God requireth not a uniformity of religion. Roger Williams
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. Conor Cruise O'Brien
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. Nigel Lawson
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. Charles Spurgeon
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Queen Rania of Jordan
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. Sandra Day O'Connor
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. D. H. Lawrence
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe. Marilynne Robinson
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Friedrich Durrenmatt
In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion. Gil Marks
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. Ulysses S. Grant
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before sciencee learnt to do so. Muhammad Iqbal
Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules. Paul Nehlen
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke
I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people. Marine Le Pen
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics. Sean Combs
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. Charles Baudelaire
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains. Gunter Grass
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Malcolm X
We are punished by our sins, not for them. Elbert Hubbard
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. John Shelby Spong
I really believe in sciencee. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of sciencee. Bill Nye
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. William O. Douglas
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me. Mike Tyson
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better. Lawrence M. Krauss
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. Daniel Morgan
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Pope Francis
I'm ready for a Christianity that 'ruins' my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and... well... dangerous. Yes, I want to be 'dangerous' to a dull and boring religion. Mike Yaconelli
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. John Galsworthy
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. Oriana Fallaci
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. Mary Wortley Montagu
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. Saint Augustine
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When push comes to shove, it ain't the sciencee that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are. Kirstie Alley
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. Henry Cabot Lodge
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents. Annie Besant
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. Fred Allen
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. Albert Einstein
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. Dalai Lama
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference. Martin Jacques
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. Frederick the Great
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. Ezra Taft Benson
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion. Guy Laliberte
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. Parker Palmer
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. Khalil Gibran
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. Talib Kweli
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. Swami Sivananda
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Thomas Paine
I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off. Tawakkol Karman
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Paul Cezanne
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. Heinrich Heine
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. Don Henley
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion. Jakob Bohme
Toleration is the best religion. Victor Hugo
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people. Salman Rushdie
I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out. Simon Toyne
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action. Frank Murphy
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. Patrick Henry
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie. Charles Grodin
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and sciencee - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it. Charles H. Townes
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God. Radhanath Swami
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. Mitt Romney
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. Thomas Paine
Real religion is no religion at all. Lauryn Hill
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth. Joseph P. Bradley
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics. Richard Engel
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Richard Dawkins
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion. Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke
The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world. Jay Parini
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. Robert Owen
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. Robert Reich
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country. Paul Ryan
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. Rick Warren
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. Christopher Dawson
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian. Erykah Badu
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now sciencee has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. Bill Gates
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mahatma Gandhi
Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion. Voltaire
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. Elie Wiesel
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that sciencee requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. David Hilbert
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. Thomas Jefferson
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The Bible is the fountain of truth. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. Honore de Balzac
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon. William Wallace
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. Colin Powell
I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement. So we must understand that whenever there is intolerance, this comes from an irreligious mind. It is not created by religion, and it is not in the mind of the religious person. Lobsang Tenzin
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. John Woolman
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity. Yehuda Berg
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Isaac Bashevis Singer
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. Gary Locke
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. Ellen Willis
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology. F. Sionil Jose
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. William S. Burroughs
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other. Zach Anner
Terrorists have no religion, belief, or race. Having been a target of a number of terrorist attacks myself, I personally empathize with the victims of terrorism and appreciate their need for protection. Sheikh Hasina
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. Sri Aurobindo
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. John Henry Newman
Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion. Michael Burry
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion. Mohsin Hamid
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Friedrich Schleiermacher
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. Gary North
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. Emile Durkheim
I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow. Tom Araya
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. Albert Camus
I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe. Maysoon Zayid
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. Harvey Milk
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion and sciencee are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The enemy of sciencee is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. Frans de Waal
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary. Abdolkarim Soroush
No great advance has been made in sciencee, politics, or religion without controversy. Lyman Beecher
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. Nick Cave
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. Lisa Randall
The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. Ridley Scott
Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world. Isabella Bird
Religion is induced insanity. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. Hugo Black
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion. James Frey
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people. Daniel Dennett
Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion. Matthew Stewart
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society. B. R. Ambedkar
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen. George Michael
I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere. Vincent Cassel
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends. Tariq Ali
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. Helena Blavatsky
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects. Alan Moore
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity. Wayne Dyer
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. Robert Browning
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Albert Einstein
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home. Bear Grylls
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. John Ruskin
If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is. Richard Rohr
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself. Kathe Kollwitz
Conflict between sciencee and religion a dangerous foe. Henry Norris Russell
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. Martin Scorsese
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! Sydney Smith
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. Jesse Eisenberg
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Douglas Adams
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Richard Dawkins
Surfing is my religion, if I have one. Kelly Slater
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. Joseph Joubert
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. Daniel Kahneman
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. Ramakrishna
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print. Dave Barry
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth. John Quincy Adams
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. Octavia E. Butler
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. Orson Welles
I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example. Hugh Jackman
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. Muhammad Ali
There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry. Louis Theroux
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. Hans Kung
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. Orson Pratt
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level. Timothy Morton
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. Howard Stern
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us. Lady Gaga
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold. Robert Kiyosaki
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time. John O'Donohue
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Bill Maher
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. Shirin Ebadi
Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me. Ariel Sharon
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin
I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way. Jessica Hecht
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics. Elaine Pagels
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. Elizabeth I
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins
The most stupid religion is Islam. Michel Houellebecq
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. Phillips Brooks
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing. Ricardo Alarcon
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. Neil Young
When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal. Marcus du Sautoy
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. Samuel Chase
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. Galileo Galilei
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. Godfrey Reggio
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. Maria Monk
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be. ASAP Rocky
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace. Stanley Hauerwas
Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back. Eli Broad
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and consciencee. Sean Brady
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture. Mohsin Hamid
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that. Paul Auster
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and sciencee because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. J. Michael Straczynski
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine
Only a god can save us. Martin Heidegger
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Frank Sinatra
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. Cat Stevens
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it. Reza Aslan
A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. Chinua Achebe
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. Harriet Ann Jacobs
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. William J. H. Boetcker
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the consciencee. Saint Ambrose
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. Epictetus
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Carter G. Woodson
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. Serj Tankian
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but sciencee, provable sciencee, is something else. Bill Nye
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. Dalai Lama
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs
Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball. Evan Bayh
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Karl Marx
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back. Mary Daly
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Ralph Inge
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips
Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. William Pennington
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to sciencee. Henri Bergson
I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view. John Eldredge
To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent. Robert Baden-Powell
I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you. Clint Eastwood
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Joseph Campbell
A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature. Lobsang Tenzin
Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions. Fatema Mernissi
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. Eldridge Cleaver
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. Dalai Lama
Music is a religion to me and my friends. Grimes
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. David Lynch
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God. Anne Graham Lotz
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. Samuel Chase
Wonder is the basis of worship. Thomas Carlyle
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in? Paul Bloom
I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu. A. R. Rahman
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. Desmond Tutu
God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark. Adoniram Judson
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. Frederick Buechner
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot
I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts. Kathleen Wynne
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. Albert Camus
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and sciencee always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in sciencee and technology. So I was always interested in sciencee and technology. Vinod Khosla
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Marcus Tullius Cicero
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. Patrick Rothfuss
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. James Larkin
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? Dwight L. Moody
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. Francis Bacon
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken
I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people. Colin Kaepernick
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. Jonathan Sacks
Comparing sciencee and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. Jack Horner
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. Dwight L. Moody
Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died. Philip Kerr
People who dismiss sciencee in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover. Lisa Randall
I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother. Anne Hathaway
Our public schools arbitrarily define sciencee as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of sciencee, including its limitations. Ken Ham
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context. Nicholas Kristof
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. Khalil Gibran
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. Ram Dass
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don't believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him. Monica Johnson
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. Henry Ward Beecher
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories. Brigham Young
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. Muhammad Ali
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race. The Weeknd
Islam is a dangerous religion. Michel Houellebecq
The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. Florentijn Hofman
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Morley
One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity. Steve Jurvetson
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't. Richard Dawkins
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. Frank Herbert
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. George Orwell
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Jesus Christ
We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press. Roger Ailes
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. Sri Aurobindo
My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus. Mandy Patinkin
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. Feisal Abdul Rauf
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them. Myles Munroe
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. Shah Rukh Khan
I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people rely on the textbook: 'OK, it says to do this and it says to do that, so if I do this, this, and that, then I still can go out and do wrong because I did this, this, and that.' Eve
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. Michael Shermer
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, sciencee, education, commerce, religion. Neil Postman
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done. James K. Polk
Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story. Gil Marks
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion. Garth Brooks
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere. Naftali Bennett
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. Lucretius
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. Robert Runcie
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. Mark Twain
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. Epictetus
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't. Dinesh D'Souza
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. Abraham Lincoln
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Napoleon Bonaparte
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Ramakrishna
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Thomas Paine
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. Edgar Allan Poe
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world. Adoniram Judson
It is my sincere hope that every person in India will experience true freedom of faith, regardless of religion. Trent Franks
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to. Joel Osteen
Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path. Anthony Joshua
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. Moses
Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism. Hamza Yusuf
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Dalai Lama
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God. Billy Graham
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Richard Burton
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. Patrick Henry
I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else. Jessie J
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. Malcolm X
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Israel Zangwill
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. Quentin Tarantino
Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him. Annie Besant
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office. Noah Feldman
I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam. Art Malik
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. Christopher Lasch
We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews. Beji Caid Essebsi
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. Hugh Hefner
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. Karen Armstrong
I'm not really any religion. I still study with Jehovah's Witnesses, so I say I'm Apostolic Pentecostal Jehovah's Witness Seventh-Day Adventist Jew. Tyka Nelson
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. George Santayana
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. Pope Francis
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. Will Smith
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences. Rodrigo Duterte
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. Andrew Greeley
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion. Huston Smith
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. Elton John
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciencees, constitute culture. Politics are the sciencee or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. Eugene Ionesco
I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views. Ishmael Beah
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste. B. R. Ambedkar
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both sciencee and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. Carl Sagan
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. Uma Thurman
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Christ
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. Nikki Haley
I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion. Rich Cohen
I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from. Alain de Botton
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy. Dayananda Saraswati
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. Desmond Tutu
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion. Ben Shapiro
I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.' Cher
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. Austin Farrer
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education. William Jennings Bryan
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. Gouverneur Morris
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies. Hamza Yusuf
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with. Brian Greene
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. Mahatma Gandhi
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality. Eckhart Tolle
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. Mahatma Gandhi
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office. Noah Feldman
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods. Jay-Z
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. Thomas More
I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way. S. Truett Cathy
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. Thomas Hardy
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. Simon Hoggart
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion. Joko Widodo
I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal. Martina Navratilova
Religion is the opium of the masses. Karl Marx
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing. Penn Jillette
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Margaret Mead
I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself. Tina Turner
You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes. Glen Campbell
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. Barack Obama
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments. Pat Buchanan
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own. Marilynne Robinson
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. David Cronenberg
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. John James Audubon
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. Martin Luther
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural. Jennifer Aniston
It is sciencee, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. Emile Durkheim
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. Condoleezza Rice
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' Prince
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. Joyce Carol Oates
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. Bill Gates
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes. Voltaire
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. Martin Luther
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. Hall Caine
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. John Maynard Keynes
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. Gregory Bateson
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the consciencee of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God. Pope Francis
I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that. Anne Graham Lotz
The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism. Ben Shapiro
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Guy de Maupassant
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. Joni Mitchell
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. Alexis Carrel
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world. Gerard Way
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything. Adam Driver
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. Herbert Read
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river. Eckhart Tolle
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion. Pauline Hanson
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. Dalai Lama
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. John Shelby Spong
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, sciencee and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Antonio Damasio
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion? Ravi Zacharias
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. Martin Luther
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Thomas Paine
It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic. Ben Shapiro
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness. Pico Iyer
What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in. Abraham Maslow
I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America. Kirk Cameron
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. Bernard de Mandeville
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Peter Jennings
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify sciencee from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II
I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force. Trey Parker
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. John Henrik Clarke
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Ernest Renan
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. John Burroughs
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. Robert Green Ingersoll
I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about. James Caan
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Son of God became man so that we might become God. Athanasius
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. E. O. Wilson
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about. Michael Caine
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. Billy Graham
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. Tom Baker
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. Lord Byron
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter. Irena Sendler
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' Tom Cruise
Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations. Aman Mojadidi
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. Lord Byron
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home. Annie Besant
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. Bodhidharma
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? Andrew Sullivan
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. Emile Durkheim
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. Thomas Hobbes
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. Alan Turing
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. Emile Durkheim
You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin. Shahid Khan
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. Baruch Spinoza
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. Christopher Hitchens
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. Peter Ustinov
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else. Walter Koenig
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. Thomas Aquinas
You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side. Keith Ellison
Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world. Amy Chua
I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito. Gene Wilder
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. Mahatma Gandhi
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country. Mike Pence
I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life. Scott Eastwood
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. James Madison
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The conflict between religion and sciencee is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of sciencee often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of sciencee. Sam Harris
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other. Josh McDowell
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. Isabelle Huppert
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. B. R. Ambedkar
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald Chambers
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed. Joseph de Maistre
One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with. David Cameron
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell
The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph. Nostradamus
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. Moses Mendelssohn
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith. Nick Rahall
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. James Randi
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens. Jay Parini
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. Arthur C. Clarke
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. Sojourner Truth
Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world. Yolanda Hadid
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. Peter T. King
Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion. Brendon Urie
Terrorism has no nationality or religion. Vladimir Putin
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. Eddie Izzard
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. Criss Angel
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, sciencee works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. Lisa Randall
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. Ernest Holmes
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. H. L. Mencken
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. Richard John Neuhaus
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. Greg Graffin
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. Sean O'Casey
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history. Dave Brat
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is. Abbas Kiarostami
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. Bill Maher
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political sciencee. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha. B. R. Ambedkar
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. Camille Paglia
I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do. Amin Maalouf
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! Thomas Huxley
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. George W. Bush
Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life. Steven Biko
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Christopher Lasch
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. Neale Donald Walsch
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. Sam Harris
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. Malcolm Muggeridge
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. Bertrand Russell
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a way, I think sciencee is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world. Mark Rylance
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. Karl Barth
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.' Martha Beck
Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away. Ricky Martin
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein
Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right. Lysander Spooner
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure. Marina Abramovic
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit. Stephen Bannon
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. Chinua Achebe
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. Peter Benenson
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. Tom Brokaw
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. Mojo Nixon
My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion. Kirk Douglas
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. Paul Tillich
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? Jonathan Sacks
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. Haile Selassie
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. Bonnie Raitt
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it. Abdolkarim Soroush
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths. Radhanath Swami
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. Rowan Atkinson
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. Paul Tournier
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion. Ellen G. White
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. Arnold Schwarzenegger
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. Joyce Meyer
If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. Lydia Millet
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte
Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched. Bruno Dumont
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong. Bill Nye
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. Aaron Neville
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. Dave Barry
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington
I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments. Antonio Conte
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is. Jesse Ventura
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. Ernie Harwell
I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head. Angel Haze
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of sciencee. Muhammad Iqbal
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. Phil Ochs
I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. Janet Jackson
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe
I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion. Michael Moorcock
From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America. Louis Finkelstein
Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly! Said Nursi
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. B. R. Ambedkar
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Harriet Martineau
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion. Malala Yousafzai
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together. Harvey Fierstein
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do. Vera Farmiga
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith. B. F. Skinner
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. E. O. Wilson
Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. Brad Pitt
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith. Russell M. Nelson
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Benjamin Disraeli
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government. Gary Johnson
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. Kofi Annan
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. Billy Sunday
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. Emanuel Swedenborg
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. Naguib Mahfouz
The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message. Ziggy Marley
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody. Sojourner Truth
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other. Eddie Redmayne
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it. Brandon Flowers
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. Carrie-Anne Moss
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. Minna Antrim
Teach us to give and not to count the cost. Saint Ignatius
I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all. Pawel Pawlikowski
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. E. O. Wilson
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. Paul Tournier
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. Arthur Wellesley
Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled. Grace Jones
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of sciencee, but sciencee is opposed to theological dogmas because sciencee is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nikola Tesla
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. Pope Benedict XVI
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe. Sam Harris
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. Francis Bacon
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau
The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. Markwayne Mullin
My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down. Chesty Puller
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. Johannes Tauler
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. Frans de Waal
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. Alfred North Whitehead
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. Arlen Specter
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. Octavia Butler
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. Hanya Yanagihara
Go beyond sciencee, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. Swami Sivananda
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. Bill Maher
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. Teju Cole
Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round. Umberto Eco
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. Geoff Mulgan
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion. Isaac Newton
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. A. R. Rahman
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power. Simon Schama
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. Barack Obama
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. Lord Hailsham
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man. Louie Schwartzberg
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. Dalai Lama
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. Unknown
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. Muhammad Iqbal
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. Pete Townshend
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. Anatole France
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien. George Clinton
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and sciencee as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell
Donald Trump has stunned the political world by building an unlikely coalition that crosses all demographic boundaries of age, sex, race, religion and social classes, and all party lines. Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. Georges Bizet
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? Karen Armstrong
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with sciencee. Paul Johnson
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. Jonathan Davis
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name. Sheikh Hasina
I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. Pope Francis
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. Dave Barry
Religion, art, and sciencee flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well. Virginia Postrel
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. Lucille Ball
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. Jeremy Bentham
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. Christopher Hitchens
We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself. Mother Angelica
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. Elie Wiesel
The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction. Thomas Becket
The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles. Jim Ryun
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. Hillary Clinton
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. John Keats
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. James Madison
Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way. Jochen Zeitz
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. Dennis Prager
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. Neale Donald Walsch
Religion is all bunk. Thomas A. Edison
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. Anita Roddick
Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever. Trey Parker
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed. Nat Turner
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. Chief Seattle
We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture. John O'Donohue
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. Jonathan Sacks
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual. Joan D. Vinge
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. Elie Wiesel
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. Jon Katz
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. Ulrich Beck
If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we? Chuck Norris
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Edmund Burke
Religion and slavery are incompatible. B. R. Ambedkar
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. Jiddu Krishnamurti
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. Dalai Lama
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. James A. Michener
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him. Mahatma Gandhi
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths or the Roman myths or religious figures of every religion. These are common characters that we use to express stories about being a better person or what you would do when faced with various things. Patty Jenkins
Music is my religion. Jimi Hendrix
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. Dave Davies
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings. Reza Aslan
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. Billy Sunday
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. John D. Rockefeller
One man's cult is another man's religion. Annie Parisse
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence. John Lewis
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. James Norton
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. Roger Ebert
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. D. H. Lawrence
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. Lawrence M. Krauss
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. Alfred Russel Wallace
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. Ronald Reagan
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. Pope Benedict XVI
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion. Marilyn Manson
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. Lou Reed
I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that. Vanilla Ice
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure. John O'Donohue
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead. David Henry Hwang
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. Marilyn Manson
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. E. W. Howe
I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. Patton Oswalt
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. Rudolf Otto
I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom. Robert H. Schuller
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. Alejandro Jodorowsky
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. Abu Bakar Bashir
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality. Sam Harris
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Benito Mussolini
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. Saint Teresa of Avila
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. Patrick Henry
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. Shirin Ebadi
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble. Gabriel Iglesias
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. Stedman Graham
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me. Ryan Adams
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the sciencee of religions started its methodical comparisons. Emile Durkheim
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I believe that religion and politics should not mix. Both should be a part of somebody's life - but not together. David L. Wolper
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. Moses Mendelssohn
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. Deepak Chopra
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. Bruce Feiler
I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth. G. Willow Wilson
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. Jiddu Krishnamurti
We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together. Carolyn Chute
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism. Greg Graffin
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. Helen Keller
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. Alvin Toffler
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. Barbara Kingsolver
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. Alexander Chase
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. Ruth St. Denis
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values. Ben Shapiro
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well. Simon Schama
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. Malcolm Muggeridge
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. John Henrik Clarke
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. Erma Bombeck
My life was changed in one breath from God. Donna Summer
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. Albert Ellis
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. John O'Donohue
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. Frederick Douglass
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life. Jane Seymour
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. E. Stanley Jones
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear. Radhanath Swami
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Scott Adams
What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. Clayton M. Christensen
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. Thomas Carlyle
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. Walter Scott
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. Madonna Ciccone
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. Emil Nolde
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. Pete Seeger
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. Arthur C. Clarke
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand. Howard Cosell
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of consciencee. Jon Meacham
God save us from religion. David Icke
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. Thomas Jefferson
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society. Reza Aslan
I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are. Jessie J
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. Alexander Hamilton
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage? John Quincy Adams
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too. Steve Earle
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. Lewis Mumford
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. Herbert Hoover
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. Paul Ryan
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. Gordon B. Hinckley
Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer. Anthony Hopkins
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. Albert Einstein
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Mahatma Gandhi
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. Lance Bass
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. Herbert Read
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. Paul Tillich
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. Friedrich Nietzsche
Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions. Fabiola Gianotti
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. Bill Maher
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. Brian Eno
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. Marguerite Gardiner
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. Abdurrahman Wahid
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know. Sam Harris
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. Michelle Malkin
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. Lionel Blue
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. Tahar Ben Jelloun
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one. Marianne Williamson
I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015. Brad Feld
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion. Harvey Milk
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. Philip James Bailey
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. Denis Diderot
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. Bono
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. Narendra Modi
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind. Steven Seagal
The American free enterprise system is the greatest tool to lift people out of poverty ever created in human history and when applied properly, does not discriminate by race, religion, or skin color. Markwayne Mullin
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. Robert Green Ingersoll
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion. Leonardo DiCaprio
All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. Ulrich Beck
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. Angie Stone
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. Mary Garden
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. Annie Besant
Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. Gene Tunney
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. Khalil Gibran
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion. Alice Walker
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. Christopher Hitchens
The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. Holly Hunter
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon. William Wallace
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. Swami Vivekananda
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Calvin Coolidge
We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Anthony Hopkins
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. William Barclay
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. Douglas Coupland
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. Martin Amis
When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom. Myles Munroe
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did. Grace Jones
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. Vera Farmiga
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country. Najib Razak
Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God. Anne Graham Lotz
Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion. Mohsin Hamid
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found. Robert Green Ingersoll
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity. Alfred Russel Wallace
Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. Michael Eric Dyson
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. Theodore C. Sorensen
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. Brian Greene
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. George A. Smith
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. Billy Graham
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. H. P. Lovecraft
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood. Josephine Baker
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama
Religion is just mind control. George Carlin
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.' Richard Wagner
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. Azar Nafisi
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. Richard Mentor Johnson
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. Taslima Nasrin
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him. Mahatma Gandhi
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. Erykah Badu
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and sciencee, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. Camille Paglia
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. Penn Jillette
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. Sri Aurobindo
In the forefront of sciencee, there is not much difference between religion and sciencee. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously. Dan Shechtman
Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. Margaret Cho
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. Julia Child
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion. Bob Inglis
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. David Hume
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. Noah Webster
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion. Daron Malakian
I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about. Trick Daddy
A cult is a religion with no political power. Tom Wolfe
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. Maimonides
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees. Douglas William Jerrold
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. Serj Tankian
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god. Ray Bradbury
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties. Dalai Lama
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them sciencee, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. Adam Hamilton
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to. Jane Elliot
Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me. Shashi Tharoor
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. Diane Paulus
For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion. Tyler, The Creator
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Richard Dawkins
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. Malcolm X
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. Sam Harris
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong. Hamza Yusuf
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Francis Bacon
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. George Gurdjieff
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. Moses Mendelssohn
I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith. Ja Rule
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. Christopher Marlowe
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. Mahatma Gandhi
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium. Frank Sinatra
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. Voltaire
I love the horror genre for how cinematic it is. I gravitated, I think, initially, toward the horror genre because, of all the genres, I think it is the genre that is most friendly to the subject matter of faith and belief in religion. Scott Derrickson
I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation. Narendra Modi
So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. Narendra Modi
Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Cory Booker
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth. Ellen G. White
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. Ellen G. White
The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. Richard Engel
It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. Barbara Ehrenreich
I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you. Michelle Phan
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least. ASAP Rocky
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. Reza Aslan
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. Anita Diament
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell
As for my religion, I worship Jesus. Sun Yat-sen
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. Albert Einstein
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. Charles Eastman
I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country. Shahid Khan
Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes. Edmund Hillary
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion. Billy Graham
What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood. Radhanath Swami
I'm afraid that a lot of things that people believe about Islam are totally different from the religion that most of us recognize. I was really fortunate that I got to know Islam before it became a headline. Cat Stevens
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma. Christy Turlington
The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing. Abel Ferrara
I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time. Donny Osmond
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. Ville Valo
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. Kingsley Amis
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. Eugene Ionesco
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons. Mohamed ElBaradei
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. Louis Kronenberger
Science without religion is lame, religion without sciencee is blind. Albert Einstein
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Mahatma Gandhi
If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy. Rob Gronkowski
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. David Mamet
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. B. R. Ambedkar
We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion. Erwin McManus
As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion. Lee Kuan Yew
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was. Reese Witherspoon
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion. Martin Gore
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. Elliott Abrams
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. Huston Smith
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw
I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world. Edward Brooke
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls. Steven Pinker
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin
It's a common part of the narrative of the history of Christianity that it was 'real' religion that involved real spirituality and real faith, and that's why it's completely superseded the more pagan polytheistic practices. Ann Leckie
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. Avicenna
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. George Washington
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. Stephen Harper
I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion. Gal Gadot
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building. Bono
I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?' John Wesley
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. Pierre Beaumarchais
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln
I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion. Naomie Harris
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. Daisaku Ikeda
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. Philip Schaff
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing. Lee Strobel
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. David Bowie
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S. Eliot
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. Charles Baudelaire
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. Arthur Middleton
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. Mahatma Gandhi
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair. Peter Marshall
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including sciencee or religion, tried to answer that question. Paulo Coelho
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. Richard M. Nixon
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad sciencee. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. Rupert Sheldrake
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies. Raymond Sokolov
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Woodrow Wilson
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. Joseph Smith, Jr.
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. Richard Dawkins
We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries. Nikki Haley
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect. Abbas Kiarostami
I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way. Dave Chappelle
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. Pearl S. Buck
My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?' James Callis
I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people. Hazel Scott
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person. Pope Francis
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. Mary Augusta Ward
It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices. Kirk Cameron
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. Dwight L. Moody
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend. Adam Savage
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal. Roxane Gay
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. Karl Marx
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power. Julian Casablancas
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm. Liam Cunningham
For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period. Rodrigo Duterte
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu
I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. Jane Elliot
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. Viktor E. Frankl
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. Will Smith
I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. Tom Ford
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, sciencee, art, religion, etc. Friedrich Engels
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that. Sam Harris
You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control. Milo Yiannopoulos
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. Dalai Lama
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. Ricardo Montalban
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our sciencee, our religion. Ralph W. Sockman
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other. Feisal Abdul Rauf
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion. Ja Rule
Basic religion is the reason we have morals. Brandon Flowers
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. Charles de Secondat
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. Charles Eastman
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer. Garrison Keillor
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them. Lily Tomlin
Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. Cory Booker
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Abraham Lincoln
I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives. Gabriel Byrne
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. Benjamin Franklin
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. Ronald Reagan
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Taylor Swift
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience. Mitt Romney
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. Mary Douglas
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, sciencee itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. Emile Durkheim
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. Eric Hoffer
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. B. R. Ambedkar
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion. Barbara Walters
God requireth not a uniformity of religion. Roger Williams
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. George Santayana
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. Conor Cruise O'Brien
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion. Nigel Lawson
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. Charles Spurgeon
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Queen Rania of Jordan
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. Sandra Day O'Connor
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. D. H. Lawrence
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe. Marilynne Robinson
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Friedrich Durrenmatt
In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion. Gil Marks
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. Ulysses S. Grant
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before sciencee learnt to do so. Muhammad Iqbal
Islam is not a religion. It's a political system. It has a different set of rules. Paul Nehlen
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke
I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people. Marine Le Pen
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics. Sean Combs
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. Charles Baudelaire
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains. Gunter Grass
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Malcolm X
We are punished by our sins, not for them. Elbert Hubbard
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Alan Watts
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. John Shelby Spong
I really believe in sciencee. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of sciencee. Bill Nye
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. William O. Douglas
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me. Mike Tyson
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better. Lawrence M. Krauss
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns. Daniel Morgan
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Pope Francis
I'm ready for a Christianity that 'ruins' my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and... well... dangerous. Yes, I want to be 'dangerous' to a dull and boring religion. Mike Yaconelli
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. John Galsworthy
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. Oriana Fallaci
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. Mary Wortley Montagu
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before. Saint Augustine
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When push comes to shove, it ain't the sciencee that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are. Kirstie Alley
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. Henry Cabot Lodge
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents. Annie Besant
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. Fred Allen
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. Albert Einstein
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it. Dalai Lama
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference. Martin Jacques
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. Frederick the Great
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. Ezra Taft Benson
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion. Guy Laliberte
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. Parker Palmer
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. Khalil Gibran
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. Talib Kweli
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. Swami Sivananda
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Thomas Paine
I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off. Tawakkol Karman
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Paul Cezanne
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. Heinrich Heine
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. Don Henley
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion. Jakob Bohme
Toleration is the best religion. Victor Hugo
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people. Salman Rushdie
I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out. Simon Toyne
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action. Frank Murphy
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. Patrick Henry
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie. Charles Grodin
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and sciencee - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it. Charles H. Townes
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God. Radhanath Swami
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. Mitt Romney
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. Thomas Paine
Real religion is no religion at all. Lauryn Hill
It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth. Joseph P. Bradley
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics. Richard Engel
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. Richard Dawkins
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion. Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke
The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world. Jay Parini
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. Robert Owen
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. Robert Reich
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country. Paul Ryan
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. Rick Warren
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism. Christopher Dawson
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian. Erykah Badu
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now sciencee has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. Bill Gates
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mahatma Gandhi
Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion. Voltaire
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. Elie Wiesel
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that sciencee requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself. David Hilbert
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. Thomas Jefferson
Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The Bible is the fountain of truth. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. Honore de Balzac
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon. William Wallace
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. Colin Powell
I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement. So we must understand that whenever there is intolerance, this comes from an irreligious mind. It is not created by religion, and it is not in the mind of the religious person. Lobsang Tenzin
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. John Woolman
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity. Yehuda Berg
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Isaac Bashevis Singer
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. Gary Locke
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. Ellen Willis
Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology. F. Sionil Jose
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. William S. Burroughs
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other. Zach Anner
Terrorists have no religion, belief, or race. Having been a target of a number of terrorist attacks myself, I personally empathize with the victims of terrorism and appreciate their need for protection. Sheikh Hasina
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. Sri Aurobindo
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. John Henry Newman
Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion. Michael Burry
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion. Mohsin Hamid
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence. Friedrich Schleiermacher
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. Gary North
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. Emile Durkheim
I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow. Tom Araya
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. Albert Camus
I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe. Maysoon Zayid
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion. Harvey Milk
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion and sciencee are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The enemy of sciencee is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. Frans de Waal
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary. Abdolkarim Soroush
No great advance has been made in sciencee, politics, or religion without controversy. Lyman Beecher
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief. Nick Cave
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. Lisa Randall
The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. Ridley Scott
Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world. Isabella Bird
Religion is induced insanity. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. Hugo Black
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion. James Frey
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people. Daniel Dennett
Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion. Matthew Stewart
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society. B. R. Ambedkar
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I have no belief in The Bible or religion, but I think Armageddon was a lucky guess. I honestly think it's going to happen. George Michael
I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere. Vincent Cassel
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends. Tariq Ali
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. Helena Blavatsky
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects. Alan Moore
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity. Wayne Dyer
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. Robert Browning
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Albert Einstein
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home. Bear Grylls
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. John Ruskin
If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is. Richard Rohr
To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself. Kathe Kollwitz
Conflict between sciencee and religion a dangerous foe. Henry Norris Russell
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. Martin Scorsese
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! Sydney Smith
I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah. Jesse Eisenberg
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Douglas Adams
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Richard Dawkins
Surfing is my religion, if I have one. Kelly Slater
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. Joseph Joubert
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. Daniel Kahneman
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. Ramakrishna
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. Swami Vivekananda
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print. Dave Barry
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth. John Quincy Adams
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. Octavia E. Butler
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. Orson Welles
I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example. Hugh Jackman
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. Muhammad Ali
There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry. Louis Theroux
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. Hans Kung
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being. Orson Pratt
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level. Timothy Morton
I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. Howard Stern
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us. Lady Gaga
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold. Robert Kiyosaki
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time. John O'Donohue
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Bill Maher
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. Shirin Ebadi
Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me. Ariel Sharon
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin
I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way. Jessica Hecht
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics. Elaine Pagels
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God. Elizabeth I
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. Mark Hopkins
The most stupid religion is Islam. Michel Houellebecq
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. Phillips Brooks
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing. Ricardo Alarcon
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature. Neil Young
When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal. Marcus du Sautoy
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. Samuel Chase
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. Galileo Galilei
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. Godfrey Reggio
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision. Maria Monk
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be. ASAP Rocky
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace. Stanley Hauerwas
Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background - don't have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it - I come here and I'm accepted. The city's been good to me. And I want to give back. Eli Broad
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and consciencee. Sean Brady
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture. Mohsin Hamid
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that. Paul Auster
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and sciencee because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases. J. Michael Straczynski
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. Thomas Paine
Only a god can save us. Martin Heidegger
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Frank Sinatra
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. Cat Stevens
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it. Reza Aslan
A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. Chinua Achebe
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious. Harriet Ann Jacobs
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. William J. H. Boetcker
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. Buddha
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the consciencee. Saint Ambrose
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. Epictetus
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. Carter G. Woodson
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. Serj Tankian
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but sciencee, provable sciencee, is something else. Bill Nye
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. Dalai Lama
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs
Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball. Evan Bayh
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. Karl Marx
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back. Mary Daly
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. William Ralph Inge
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips
Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. William Pennington
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to sciencee. Henri Bergson
I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view. John Eldredge
To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent. Robert Baden-Powell
I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you. Clint Eastwood
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Joseph Campbell
A religion must be instrumental in spiritualising the individual into a boundless and holistic nature. Lobsang Tenzin
Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions. Fatema Mernissi
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. Eldridge Cleaver
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. Dalai Lama
Music is a religion to me and my friends. Grimes
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. David Lynch
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God. Anne Graham Lotz
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. Samuel Chase
Wonder is the basis of worship. Thomas Carlyle
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in? Paul Bloom
I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu. A. R. Rahman
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. Desmond Tutu
God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark. Adoniram Judson
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage. Frederick Buechner
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot
I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts. Kathleen Wynne
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. Albert Camus
Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and sciencee always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in sciencee and technology. So I was always interested in sciencee and technology. Vinod Khosla
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Marcus Tullius Cicero
I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. Patrick Rothfuss
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. James Larkin
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? Dwight L. Moody
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief. Francis Bacon
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken
I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people. Colin Kaepernick
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. Jonathan Sacks
Comparing sciencee and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. Jack Horner
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things. Dwight L. Moody
Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died. Philip Kerr
People who dismiss sciencee in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover. Lisa Randall
I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother. Anne Hathaway
Our public schools arbitrarily define sciencee as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of sciencee, including its limitations. Ken Ham
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context. Nicholas Kristof
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. Khalil Gibran
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth. Ram Dass
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis
Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don't believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him. Monica Johnson
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. Henry Ward Beecher
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories. Brigham Young
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. Muhammad Ali
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race. The Weeknd
Islam is a dangerous religion. Michel Houellebecq
The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. Florentijn Hofman
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Morley
One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity. Steve Jurvetson
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't. Richard Dawkins
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. Frank Herbert
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. George Orwell
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Jesus Christ
We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press. Roger Ailes
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. Sri Aurobindo
My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus. Mandy Patinkin
The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth. Feisal Abdul Rauf
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them. Myles Munroe
I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. Shah Rukh Khan
I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people rely on the textbook: 'OK, it says to do this and it says to do that, so if I do this, this, and that, then I still can go out and do wrong because I did this, this, and that.' Eve
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. Michael Shermer
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, sciencee, education, commerce, religion. Neil Postman
I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done. James K. Polk
Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story. Gil Marks
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion. Garth Brooks
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere. Naftali Bennett
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. Lucretius
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Bonaparte
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. Robert Runcie
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. Mark Twain
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. Epictetus
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't. Dinesh D'Souza
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. Abraham Lincoln
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. Napoleon Bonaparte
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Ramakrishna
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Thomas Paine
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. Edgar Allan Poe
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world. Adoniram Judson
It is my sincere hope that every person in India will experience true freedom of faith, regardless of religion. Trent Franks
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to. Joel Osteen
Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path. Anthony Joshua
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. Moses
Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism. Hamza Yusuf
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Dalai Lama
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God. Billy Graham
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Richard Burton
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. Patrick Henry
I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else. Jessie J
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. Malcolm X
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose. Michel Onfray
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Israel Zangwill
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. Quentin Tarantino
Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him. Annie Besant
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office. Noah Feldman
I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam. Art Malik
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. Christopher Lasch
We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews. Beji Caid Essebsi
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. Hugh Hefner
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. Karen Armstrong
I'm not really any religion. I still study with Jehovah's Witnesses, so I say I'm Apostolic Pentecostal Jehovah's Witness Seventh-Day Adventist Jew. Tyka Nelson
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. George Santayana
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. Pope Francis
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion. Will Smith
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences. Rodrigo Duterte
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. Andrew Greeley
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion. Huston Smith
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. Elton John
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciencees, constitute culture. Politics are the sciencee or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. Eugene Ionesco
I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views. Ishmael Beah
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste. B. R. Ambedkar
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both sciencee and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. Carl Sagan
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. Uma Thurman
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Christ
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. Nikki Haley
I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion. Rich Cohen
I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from. Alain de Botton
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy. Dayananda Saraswati
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. Desmond Tutu
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us - the Supreme Court, President Obama - against traditional religion. Ben Shapiro
I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.' Cher
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert. Austin Farrer
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. Blaise Pascal
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education. William Jennings Bryan
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. Gouverneur Morris
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies. Hamza Yusuf
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with. Brian Greene
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. Mahatma Gandhi
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. George Santayana
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality. Eckhart Tolle
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. Mahatma Gandhi
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office. Noah Feldman
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods. Jay-Z
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. Thomas More
I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way. S. Truett Cathy
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. Thomas Hardy
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs. Simon Hoggart
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion. Joko Widodo
I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal. Martina Navratilova
Religion is the opium of the masses. Karl Marx
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing. Penn Jillette
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. Margaret Mead
I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself. Tina Turner
You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes. Glen Campbell
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. Barack Obama
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments. Pat Buchanan
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own. Marilynne Robinson
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. David Cronenberg
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule. John James Audubon
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. Martin Luther
I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural. Jennifer Aniston
It is sciencee, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand. Emile Durkheim
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. Condoleezza Rice
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' Prince
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. Joyce Carol Oates
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. Bill Gates
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes. Voltaire
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. Martin Luther
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. Hall Caine
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. John Maynard Keynes
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. Gregory Bateson
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the consciencee of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God. Pope Francis
I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that. Anne Graham Lotz
The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism. Ben Shapiro
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. Guy de Maupassant
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. Joni Mitchell
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. Alexis Carrel
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world. Gerard Way
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything. Adam Driver
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. Herbert Read
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river. Eckhart Tolle
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion. Pauline Hanson
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. Dalai Lama
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. John Shelby Spong
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, sciencee and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Antonio Damasio
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion? Ravi Zacharias
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. Martin Luther
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Thomas Paine
It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic. Ben Shapiro
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness. Pico Iyer
What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in. Abraham Maslow
I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America. Kirk Cameron
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. Bernard de Mandeville
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Peter Jennings
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify sciencee from idolatry and false absolutes. Pope John Paul II
I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force. Trey Parker
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. John Henrik Clarke
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Ernest Renan
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. John Burroughs
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others. Robert Green Ingersoll
I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about. James Caan
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Son of God became man so that we might become God. Athanasius
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. E. O. Wilson
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about. Michael Caine
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. Billy Graham
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. Tom Baker
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. Lord Byron
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter. Irena Sendler
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' Tom Cruise
Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations. Aman Mojadidi
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. Lord Byron
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home. Annie Besant
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. Bodhidharma
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? Andrew Sullivan
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. Emile Durkheim
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. Thomas Hobbes
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. Alan Turing
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. Emile Durkheim
You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin. Shahid Khan
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. Baruch Spinoza
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. Christopher Hitchens
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought. Peter Ustinov
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else. Walter Koenig
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. Thomas Aquinas
You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side. Keith Ellison
Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world. Amy Chua
I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito. Gene Wilder
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. Mahatma Gandhi
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country. Mike Pence
I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life. Scott Eastwood
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. James Madison
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The conflict between religion and sciencee is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of sciencee often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of sciencee. Sam Harris
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other. Josh McDowell
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything. Isabelle Huppert
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. B. R. Ambedkar
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald Chambers
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed. Joseph de Maistre
One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with. David Cameron
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell
The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph. Nostradamus
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. Moses Mendelssohn
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith. Nick Rahall
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. James Randi
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens. Jay Parini
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. Arthur C. Clarke
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff. Sojourner Truth
Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world. Yolanda Hadid
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. Peter T. King
Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion. Brendon Urie
Terrorism has no nationality or religion. Vladimir Putin
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. Eddie Izzard
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. Criss Angel
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, sciencee works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core. Lisa Randall
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. Ernest Holmes
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. H. L. Mencken
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. Richard John Neuhaus
One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature. Greg Graffin
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible. Sean O'Casey
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history. Dave Brat
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is. Abbas Kiarostami
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. Bill Maher
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political sciencee. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha. B. R. Ambedkar
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. Camille Paglia
I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do. Amin Maalouf
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! Thomas Huxley
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. George W. Bush
Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life. Steven Biko
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Christopher Lasch
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. Neale Donald Walsch
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. Sam Harris
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. Malcolm Muggeridge
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. Bertrand Russell
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In a way, I think sciencee is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world. Mark Rylance
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. Karl Barth
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.' Martha Beck
Honestly, I never needed a mask to go onstage. It was me who was there, and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away. Ricky Martin
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein
Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right. Lysander Spooner
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure. Marina Abramovic
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit. Stephen Bannon
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. Chinua Achebe
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. Peter Benenson
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. Tom Brokaw
I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. Mojo Nixon
My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion. Kirk Douglas
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. Paul Tillich
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? Jonathan Sacks
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. Haile Selassie
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. Bonnie Raitt
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it. Abdolkarim Soroush
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths. Radhanath Swami
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. Rowan Atkinson
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. Paul Tournier
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion. Ellen G. White
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. Arnold Schwarzenegger
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. Joyce Meyer
If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. Lydia Millet
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte
Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched. Bruno Dumont
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong. Bill Nye
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. Aaron Neville
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. Dave Barry
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington
I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments. Antonio Conte
There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is. Jesse Ventura
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. Ernie Harwell
I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head. Angel Haze
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of sciencee. Muhammad Iqbal
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. Phil Ochs
I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. Janet Jackson
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe
I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion. Michael Moorcock
From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America. Louis Finkelstein
Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly! Said Nursi
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people. B. R. Ambedkar
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Harriet Martineau
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion. Malala Yousafzai
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together. Harvey Fierstein
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do. Vera Farmiga
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith. B. F. Skinner
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. E. O. Wilson
Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. Brad Pitt
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith. Russell M. Nelson
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Benjamin Disraeli
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government. Gary Johnson
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. Kofi Annan
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. Billy Sunday
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. Emanuel Swedenborg
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. Naguib Mahfouz
The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message. Ziggy Marley
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody. Sojourner Truth
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other. Eddie Redmayne
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it. Brandon Flowers
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. Carrie-Anne Moss
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him. Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. Minna Antrim
Teach us to give and not to count the cost. Saint Ignatius
I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all. Pawel Pawlikowski
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. E. O. Wilson
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. Paul Tournier
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. Arthur Wellesley
Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled. Grace Jones
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of sciencee, but sciencee is opposed to theological dogmas because sciencee is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nikola Tesla
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. Pope Benedict XVI
Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe. Sam Harris
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. Francis Bacon
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau
The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. Markwayne Mullin
My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down. Chesty Puller
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. Johannes Tauler
Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it. Frans de Waal
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. Alfred North Whitehead
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. Arlen Specter
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. Octavia Butler
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. Hanya Yanagihara
Go beyond sciencee, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. Swami Sivananda
We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. Bill Maher
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. Teju Cole
Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round. Umberto Eco
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. Geoff Mulgan
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion. Isaac Newton
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past. A. R. Rahman
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it's now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power. Simon Schama
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. Barack Obama
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. Lord Hailsham
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man. Louie Schwartzberg
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. Dalai Lama
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. Unknown
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. Muhammad Iqbal
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. Pete Townshend
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. Anatole France
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien. George Clinton
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and sciencee as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell
Donald Trump has stunned the political world by building an unlikely coalition that crosses all demographic boundaries of age, sex, race, religion and social classes, and all party lines. Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. Georges Bizet
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? Karen Armstrong
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with sciencee. Paul Johnson
I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. Jonathan Davis
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name. Sheikh Hasina
I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. Pope Francis
The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. Dave Barry
Religion, art, and sciencee flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well. Virginia Postrel
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. Lucille Ball
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. Jeremy Bentham
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. Christopher Hitchens
We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself. Mother Angelica
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. Elie Wiesel
The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction. Thomas Becket
The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles. Jim Ryun
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. Hillary Clinton
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. John Keats
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. James Madison
Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way. Jochen Zeitz
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. Dennis Prager
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. Neale Donald Walsch
Religion is all bunk. Thomas A. Edison
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. Anita Roddick
Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever. Trey Parker
To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed. Nat Turner
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. Chief Seattle
We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture. John O'Donohue
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. Jonathan Sacks
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual. Joan D. Vinge
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. Elie Wiesel
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. Jon Katz
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. Ulrich Beck
If America's Founding Fathers espoused openness to religion, creationism, and the Bible being taught in schools, then it beckons the question, Why don't we? Chuck Norris
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Edmund Burke
Religion and slavery are incompatible. B. R. Ambedkar
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. Jiddu Krishnamurti
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. Dalai Lama
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. James A. Michener
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him. Mahatma Gandhi
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths or the Roman myths or religious figures of every religion. These are common characters that we use to express stories about being a better person or what you would do when faced with various things. Patty Jenkins
Music is my religion. Jimi Hendrix
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. Dave Davies
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings. Reza Aslan
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. Billy Sunday
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. John D. Rockefeller
One man's cult is another man's religion. Annie Parisse
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence. John Lewis
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. James Norton
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. Roger Ebert
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. D. H. Lawrence
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. Lawrence M. Krauss
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. Alfred Russel Wallace
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. Ronald Reagan
An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity. Pope Benedict XVI
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. Blaise Pascal
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion. Marilyn Manson
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. Lou Reed
I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that. Vanilla Ice
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure. John O'Donohue
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead. David Henry Hwang
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. Marilyn Manson
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. E. W. Howe
I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious. Patton Oswalt
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. Rudolf Otto
I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom. Robert H. Schuller
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today. Alejandro Jodorowsky
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. Abu Bakar Bashir
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality. Sam Harris
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Benito Mussolini
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. Saint Teresa of Avila
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. Patrick Henry
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. Shirin Ebadi
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble. Gabriel Iglesias
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. Stedman Graham
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me. Ryan Adams
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the sciencee of religions started its methodical comparisons. Emile Durkheim
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I believe that religion and politics should not mix. Both should be a part of somebody's life - but not together. David L. Wolper
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another. Moses Mendelssohn
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. Deepak Chopra
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. Bruce Feiler
I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth. G. Willow Wilson
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. Jiddu Krishnamurti
We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together. Carolyn Chute
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism. Greg Graffin
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. Helen Keller
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. Alvin Toffler
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. Barbara Kingsolver
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. Alexander Chase
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. Ruth St. Denis
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values. Ben Shapiro
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well. Simon Schama
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. Malcolm Muggeridge
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. John Henrik Clarke
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. Erma Bombeck
My life was changed in one breath from God. Donna Summer
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. Albert Ellis
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming. John O'Donohue
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. Frederick Douglass
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life. Jane Seymour
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. E. Stanley Jones
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear. Radhanath Swami
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Scott Adams
What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. Clayton M. Christensen
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. Thomas Carlyle
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. Walter Scott
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family. Madonna Ciccone
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. Emil Nolde
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. Pete Seeger
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. Arthur C. Clarke
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand. Howard Cosell
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of consciencee. Jon Meacham
God save us from religion. David Icke
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. Thomas Jefferson
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society. Reza Aslan
I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are. Jessie J
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. Alexander Hamilton