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Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.
— Anna Maria Chavez
Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art.
— Gustav Klimt
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
— Aarti Sequeira
The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.
— Mian Muhammad Mansha
Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
— Ilya Ilyin
'Greedy gut' is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts.
— Geraldine Page
I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.
— Susan Lucci
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
— Heywood Broun
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.
— Chow Yun-Fat
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
— Gary L. Francione
I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!
— Brenda Song
When I was first approached for 'Pass the Plate,' I was thrilled because I love to cook. And I love to cook healthy. The reason I started cooking was because I would go to restaurants and have just amazing food but feel so heavy and gross. I would go home and try to cook the same thing, but a healthy version.
— Brenda Song
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
— Robert Patterson
Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
— Neal Barnard
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
— A. Whitney Brown
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
— Yash Chopra
By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.
— Diana DeGette
I watch Letterman. Once in a while, on the odd night, I'll catch the Food Network and watch 'Ace of Cakes,' which I'm kind of obsessed with.
— Amanda Righetti
I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
— Tanya Fischer
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
— Elsa Schiaparelli
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
— Bryan Q. Miller
I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
— Barbara Fialho
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.
— Louise Fresco
There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
— Josette Sheeran
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
— Joseph Lelyveld
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
— Muhammad Ali
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
— C. S. Lewis
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
— Swami Vivekananda
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
— Martin Luther
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
— Thomas Paine
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.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
— Galileo Galilei
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
— Vladimir Putin
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
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
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
— Shirin Ebadi
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
— Arlen Specter
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
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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 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
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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
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
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
— Frederick Douglass
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
— ASAP Rocky
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
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
— Joseph Campbell
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
Religion is the opium of the masses.
— Karl Marx
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
— Richard Dawkins
God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.
— Rodrigo Duterte
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
— Lucille Ball
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
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
— George Orwell
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
— James Madison
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
— William S. Burroughs
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
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
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 the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
— Robert Runcie
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
— Ronald Reagan
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
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
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
— Saint Ignatius
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
— Benito Mussolini
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
— Elizabeth I
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
— Naftali Bennett
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
— Unknown
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
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
I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.
— Dwight L. Moody
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
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
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
Religion is all bunk.
— Thomas A. Edison
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.
— Gene Luen Yang
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
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
— Anais Nin
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
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
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
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
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.
— Shashi Tharoor
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
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
— Thomas Paine
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
For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.
— Tyler, The Creator
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
— Minna Antrim
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
— Henry Cabot Lodge
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
Religion is just mind control.
— George Carlin
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
— Albert Einstein
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
— Elie Wiesel
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
— Voltaire
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
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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
Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.
— Frederick the Great
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 conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
— Pope Francis
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
— Voltaire
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
— Guy de Maupassant
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
— Lord Byron
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
— Jorge Luis Borges
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
— Craig Bruce
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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 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 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
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
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
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
— Dalai Lama
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
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
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
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
— Richard Dawkins
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
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
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.
— Gloria Steinem
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
— Maajid Nawaz
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
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
— Harriet Martineau
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
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
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
— Albert Einstein
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.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
— Albert Einstein
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
— Bonnie Raitt
Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
— Camille Paglia
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
Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.
— William Godwin
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
— Dennis Prager
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
— Robert Jackson
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
— Karl Marx
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
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
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
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
— Maimonides
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
— Neale Donald Walsch
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
— Desmond Tutu
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
— Eckhart Tolle
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
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 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
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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
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
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 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
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
— Elbert Hubbard
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
— John Burroughs
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
— Patrick Henry
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
— E. Stanley Jones
Only a god can save us.
— Martin Heidegger
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
— Ramakrishna
The Bible is the fountain of truth.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
— Athanasius
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
— Hugh Hefner
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
— Avicenna
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.
— Paul Ryan
God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
— Roger Williams
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
— Moses Mendelssohn
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.
— Tinie Tempah
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
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
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
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
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
— H. L. Mencken
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
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
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
— Anita Brookner
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
— Thomas Hobbes
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
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
— Margaret Atwood
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
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
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
— William Barclay
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
— Cat Stevens
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
— Maimonides
Real religion is no religion at all.
— Lauryn Hill
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
— Peter L. Berger
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
— Christy Turlington
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
— Ken Kesey
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
— Tom Brokaw
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
— Jeremy Taylor
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
— Walter Savage Landor
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
— Bono
Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
— Talib Kweli
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
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
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
— Ken Livingstone
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 speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
— Sam Harris
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
— Sam Harris
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
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.
— Greg Graffin
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
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
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
There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.
— Steve-O
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
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
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
— Voltaire
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
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
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
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
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
For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.
— Rodrigo Duterte
Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.
— Louis Theroux
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.
— Jay-Z
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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
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
I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it's locking into what suits me.
— Anthony Joshua
In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.
— Rabih Alameddine
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
— William Blake
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
— Richard Mentor Johnson
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
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
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