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I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.
— Erwin McManus
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
— Sam Harris
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
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
— Adam Savage
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
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
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 and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.
— Patrick Chappatte
Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
— Daron Malakian
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
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
— Taylor Swift
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
— Dalai Lama
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
— Salman Rushdie
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
— Salman Rushdie
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
— Marco Rubio
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
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
— Voltaire
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
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'm religiously opposed to religion.
— Victor Hugo
The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
— Elliott Abrams
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
— Malcolm X
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
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
— Christopher Hitchens
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
— Christopher Hitchens
My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
— Marilyn Manson
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
— John Updike
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.
— Martin Freeman
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.
— Ridley Scott
The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.
— Alanis Morissette
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
— Samuel Butler
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
— Pope Francis
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
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
— Prince
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
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
— Michael Leunig
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
— Ziggy Marley
For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
— George A. Romero
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.
— Ariel Sharon
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.
— Nick Cave
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
— John Burroughs
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
— Brad Pitt
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
— Richard Engel
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
— George Santayana
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
— Camille Paglia
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
— Elie Wiesel
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
— Roger Ailes
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
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
— Martin Scorsese
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
— John Ruskin
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
— John Ruskin
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
— Nathan Myhrvold
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
— Honore de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
— Honore de Balzac
I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.
— Madonna Ciccone
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
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
— Epictetus
The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.
— Milo Yiannopoulos
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
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
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
— Gertrude Stein
Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.
— Steven Van Zandt
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
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
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
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
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
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
— E. O. Wilson
I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
— Aaron Neville
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
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
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
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
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
Major forces that have contributed to the evolution of philanthropy in India in the pre-modern era have mainly been driven by religion, family, and society. The Hindu teaching of 'daan' or 'giving' is present in different ways in almost every celebration or ritual.
— Shiv Nadar
I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
— Katherine Heigl
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
As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.
— Rudy Giuliani
One person's religion is another person's cult.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My grandparents - my mom's parents - they're Jewish. But nobody ever pushed religion onto us. It wasn't something I ever grew up with.
— David Beckham
We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.
— Stephen Colbert
Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.
— Will Poulter
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.
— Mohsin Hamid
There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
— Bonnie Hunt
It is my sincere hope that every person in India will experience true freedom of faith, regardless of religion.
— Trent Franks
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
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
I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.
— Matisyahu
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 won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
— Carl Sandburg
The enemy of science 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 secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
— Orhan Pamuk
I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'
— Ving Rhames
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
— Tom Robbins
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
— Rachel Weisz
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
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
— Bill Nye
I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.
— Lee Trevino
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
— Paul Cezanne
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
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa.
— Max Heindel
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 can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.
— Greg Graffin
I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period.
— Mel Gibson
Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.
— Mel Gibson
Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
— Julian Casablancas
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
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
— Hamza Yusuf
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.
— Robyn Davidson
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
— Tommy Chong
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
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
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
— Richard Gere
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
— Robert Browning
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
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
— B. F. Skinner
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
— Pete Townshend
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
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
— Bodhidharma
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
— Michelle Bachelet
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
— Asghar Farhadi
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
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
— Van Morrison
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
— Karen Armstrong
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
My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?
— Ja Rule
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
— Geraldine Brooks
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
— Billy Sunday
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
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
— Octavia E. Butler
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
The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.
— Kirstie Alley
I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.
— Alice Cooper
God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
— Jerry Falwell
Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
— Aasif Mandvi
As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.
— Tim Ryan
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
— Heinrich Heine
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.
— Bruce Feiler
Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.
— Melody Beattie
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
— Richard Burton
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
— Bill Maher
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
— Bill Maher
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
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
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
— Ravi Zacharias
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
— Wallace Stevens
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
— Peter Ustinov
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
— Paul Davies
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
— Ian MacKaye
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
— Herbert Read
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
— Paul Valery
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
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
— Charles de Secondat
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
— Tim Heidecker
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
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
— Barbara Walters
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
— Sydney Smith
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
— Thomas Hardy
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
— Yann Martel
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
— Eddie Izzard
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
— Eddie Izzard
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
— Peter Jennings
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
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
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
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
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
— Roy Moore
Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
— Pam Grier
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
There are so many things in life that divide us, that separate us and tear us apart, be it race, religion, creed, socioeconomic level, nationality or any variety of other factors. But running is something that we all share in common.
— Dean Karnazes
If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
— Paul Harris
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
— Paul Harris
I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
— Youssou N'Dour
Islam is a peaceful religion.
— Youssou N'Dour
The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
— Fatema Mernissi
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— Saint Ambrose
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
— Ramakrishna
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
— James Larkin
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
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
— Lisa Bonet
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
— Andrew Greeley
In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.
— Paul Rand
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
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
— Franz Liszt
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
— Johannes Tauler
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
— Charles Eastman
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
— Ernest Istook
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
— William Jennings Bryan
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
— Radhanath Swami
I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.
— Julianna Baggott
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
— David Gilmour
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
— Walter Pater
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
— George J. Mitchell
I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion.
— Kunal Nayyar
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
My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.
— Isabelle Huppert
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
My life was changed in one breath from God.
— Donna Summer
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
— William O. Douglas
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
— Orson Pratt
Religion is an irrational construct.
— Michel Onfray
We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.
— Franklin Graham
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 studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
— Carol P. Christ
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
— Carol P. Christ
When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.
— Marcus du Sautoy
For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.
— Krista Tippett
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
— Hans Jonas
It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
— Gordon W. Allport
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
— Lucretius
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
— Herman Hesse
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
I'm not really into religion.
— Harry Dean Stanton
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
— Buddy Hackett
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
— Alan Lightman
Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
— Kelly Slater
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
— Howard Fast
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
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
— George A. Smith
Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
— Harold Hamm
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
— David Hilbert
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
— William Robertson Smith
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.
— James Welch
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
— Arthur Wellesley
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 of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - 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
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
I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.
— Trevor Phillips
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
— James Mark Baldwin
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
— George W. Romney
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
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
— Robert Jackson
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
— Douglas William Jerrold
I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
— Indra Devi
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
— Sri Aurobindo
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
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
— Rajneesh
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
— Len G. Murray
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
— Larry Harvey
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
For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion.
— Henry Eyring
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
— Robin Ince
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
— Hannah More
If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
— Michael Berryman
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
— Michael Berryman
In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'
— Virchand Gandhi
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
— Philip Schaff
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
— Yehuda Amichai
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
— Joyce Cary
Religion is induced insanity.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.
— Raymond Moody
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
— Gary North
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
— Paul Tournier
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
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
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
— James Martineau
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
— Kerry Thornley
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
— Mark Hopkins
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
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
— Harvey Cox
To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
— Rudolf Otto