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The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
— Lewis Mumford
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
— Samuel Butler
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
— B. R. Ambedkar
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
— Chuck Berry
As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.
— Katherine Webb
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.
— Reza Aslan
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
— Madonna Ciccone
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
— Billy Graham
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
— Billy Graham
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom.
— Tyler Cowen
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.
— Wayne Dyer
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
— Eugene Ionesco
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
— Isaac Newton
I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.
— Kirk Cameron
The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
— Fred Allen
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church.
— Emile Durkheim
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
— Epictetus
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
— Serj Tankian
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.
— Stephen Bannon
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
— Robert A. Heinlein
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.
— Joyce Meyer
Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
— Sam Harris
One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.
— Hugh Hefner
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
— Emile Durkheim
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
— Nazanin Boniadi
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
— John D. Rockefeller
I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.
— Ishmael Beah
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.
— Najib Razak
I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.
— Jessie J
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
— Gouverneur Morris
Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.
— Nicholas Kristof
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
— John Maynard Keynes
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
— Alice Walker
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
— Malcolm X
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
— Irena Sendler
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.
— Myles Munroe
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
— Thomas Paine
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
— Immanuel Kant
Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
— Blaise Pascal
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
— Karl Barth
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
— Steven Seagal
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
— George Santayana
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
— Christopher Marlowe
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
— John Shelby Spong
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
— John Lewis
The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.
— Ridley Scott
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
— Dalai Lama
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
— Salman Rushdie
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
— Bill Maher
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
— Mary Daly
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
— Thomas Aquinas
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.
— Markwayne Mullin
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
— Billy Graham
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
— Alexander Chase
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
— T. S. Eliot
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
— Blaise Pascal
I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.
— Bjork
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
— Muhammad Iqbal
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
— Ernest Istook
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
— Jonathan Swift
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
— Marguerite Gardiner
My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
— Marilyn Manson
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
— Bear Grylls
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.
— Marilynne Robinson
I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
— Bill Nye
When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.
— Juanes
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.
— Jakob Bohme
We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture.
— John O'Donohue
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
— Abraham Lincoln
Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
— Cory Booker
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
— Barack Obama
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
— Paul Tillich
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
— B. R. Ambedkar
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
— Joni Mitchell
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
— Huston Smith
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
— Albert Einstein
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.
— Austin Farrer
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
— Jonathan Swift
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
— ASAP Rocky
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
— Josephine Baker
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
— Eldridge Cleaver
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
— Lucretius
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
— Arthur Wellesley
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
— Bernard Katz
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
— Emily Carr
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
— Swami Sivananda
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
— Phil Ochs
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
— Lamar S. Smith
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
— Erykah Badu
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
— Ulrich Beck
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
— Richard Dawkins
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
— Charles Baudelaire
Religion is love in no case is it logic.
— Beatrice Webb
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
— Rowan Atkinson
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
— David Miliband
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.
— Angie Stone
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
— Daniel Dennett
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
— Sam Harris
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
— Annie Besant
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.
— Gerard Way
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
— Reza Aslan
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
— David Lynch
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
— Albert Camus
I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.
— Janet Jackson
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
— Richard Dawkins
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.
— Noah Feldman
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?
— James Fenimore Cooper
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
— John James Audubon
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
— Adam Driver
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
— Pico Iyer
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
— Leon Bourgeois
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
— Gunter Grass
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
— Francis Bacon
Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is with pride and gladness that the wanderer sets foot again on British soil, thanking God for the religion and the liberty which have made this weather-beaten island in a northern sea to be the light and glory of the world.
— Isabella Bird
All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
— Narendra Modi
What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
— Abraham Maslow
Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.
— Cory Booker
Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
— Gary Johnson
Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
— John Quincy Adams
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
— Sojourner Truth
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
— Zach Anner
Daredevil's religion makes him unique. He's a vigilante, but he's also a lawyer - and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.
— Charlie Cox
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
— Tom Araya
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
— Joseph Joubert
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
— Samuel Chase
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.
— Lisa Randall
If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.
— Octavia Spencer
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
— Alfred Russel Wallace
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
— Larry Flynt
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
— Albert Ellis
The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
— Ziggy Marley
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
— Oscar Fernandes
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
— B. R. Ambedkar
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
— Franz Werfel
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
— Phillips Brooks
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
— Alan Watts
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
— Thomas Jefferson
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
— George Santayana
Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
— Lord Melbourne
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
— Thomas Carlyle
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
— William Hazlitt
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
— Beatrix Potter
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
— Taslima Nasrin
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
— Jane Elliot
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
— Jane Elliot
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
— Noah Webster
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
— Stephen Harper
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
— Dennis Prager
No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
— George Whitefield
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
— Shaun Cassidy
Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.
— Cliff Stearns
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
— Linda Chavez
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
— Kit Williams
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
— Thomas Bulfinch
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
— Emanuel Swedenborg
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
— Maria Monk
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
— Sri Aurobindo
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
— Courtney Love
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
— Norman Lamm
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
— Andrew Sullivan
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
— Clarence Darrow
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
— Mary Baker Eddy
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
— Taslima Nasrin
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
— Lord Hailsham
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
— Art Linkletter
Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
— Natalie Portman
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
— Pope Shenouda III
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
— Julia Child
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
— Will Smith
I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
— Julian Schnabel
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
— Chinua Achebe
I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
— Keanu Reeves
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
— Josh McDowell
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.
— Jane Seymour
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
— John Shelby Spong
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
— Karen Armstrong
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
— Harry Browne
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.
— Vera Farmiga
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.
— Francois Pinault
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
— Robert Winston
I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't believe in insinuating religion into conversation. I don't believe in excluding it from conversation. I enjoy the fact that people's innermost thoughts are their own.
— Marilynne Robinson
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.
— Marina Abramovic
The most stupid religion is Islam.
— Michel Houellebecq
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
— Ellen G. White
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
— Ellen G. White
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
— Steve Earle
I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.
— Pope Francis
I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
— Tracy Chapman
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?
— Ravi Zacharias
I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.
— Jerry Springer
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
— Jesse Ventura
Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.
— Jon Katz
I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.
— Monica Bellucci
I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.
— Katy Perry
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
— Warren Bennis
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
— Diane Paulus
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.
— Grover Norquist
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
— Okky Madasari
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
— Bill Gates
If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
— Richard Dawkins
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
— Richard Dawkins
The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face with difference.
— Martin Jacques
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.
— Dinesh D'Souza
It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.
— Ben Shapiro
I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
— Zayn Malik
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?
— Paul Bloom
One man's cult is another man's religion.
— Annie Parisse
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
— John Updike
Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.
— Benjamin Robbins Curtis
The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
— Barry O'Farrell
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
— Barry Humphries
For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.
— Erwin McManus
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
— Charles Spurgeon
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
— Adam Mansbach
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
— Hanya Yanagihara
I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.
— Gene Luen Yang
Some would rather pull a handcart across the prairie than bring up the subject of faith and religion to their friends and co-workers. They worry about how they might be perceived or how it might harm their relationship. It doesn't need to be that way because we have a glad message to share, and we have a message of joy.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.
— Nikki Haley
Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.
— Leon Charney
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
— D'Angelo
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.
— Mike Pence
'Kol Nidrei' is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.
— Itzhak Perlman
I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.
— Pawel Pawlikowski
While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who exercised a mysterious protection over me. I belonged to something - I hung to something - there is nothing that has so much reverence and religion in it as affection to parents.
— William Godwin
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.
— Peter Marshall
There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.
— Louis Theroux
One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.
— Russell M. Nelson
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.
— The Weeknd
Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that's what I like to learn.
— Stephen J. Dubner
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
— Mark Twain
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
— John Galsworthy
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
— Daniel Bell
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
— Ricardo Montalban
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
— Thomas Jefferson
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
— Imelda Staunton
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
— E. O. Wilson
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
— Huston Smith
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
— Christopher Hitchens
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
— Brian Eno