Words matter. These are the best Religion Quotes from famous people such as Logan Browning, O. Henry, Aldous Huxley, Mary Douglas, Ana Navarro, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
I know Marco Rubio very well. He’s a friend of mine. He’s a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and – you know, for whom religion is very important.
The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I’m not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn’t right.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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.
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
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.
Religion is extremely important in this democracy – so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.
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.
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can’t believe in any of it.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
It doesn’t matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion… We will not allow this to happen.
I like potential in people. If I find someone who has lot of potential and can do something with life, then I don’t see bank balance, which family he comes from, or his religion.
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.
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.
It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
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.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they’d like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Religion is such a path with people.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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?
Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao’s China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Religion doesn’t play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don’t think I’ve ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word ‘Jew’ or saying it myself.
No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States.
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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.
I love religion.
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God… Islam is a religion of peace. You don’t attack. You explain.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
I’m not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
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.
The Japanese don’t have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don’t say you eat it: you say, ‘I am receiving it.’ Kind of like you are thanking the food.
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism – nothing can touch it because it is empathy.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on various social portals, I can attest to the visceral emotions that are triggered when these topics are broached!
People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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.
My mom’s a Catholic, and my dad’s a Jew, and they didn’t want anything to do with anything.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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.
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don’t think that that’s necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.
We don’t dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can’t win.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
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.
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
I have always respected everyone’s religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
I am a proud Hindu, but that doesn’t I mean I disrespect others’ religion.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult – these are the things I’m most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I’m very passionate about cinema.
I’m not really into religion.
Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country – whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to – well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.
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.
I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
I think India is very passionate about films. It’s almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are – are really held in great esteem. Not that we’re complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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.
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.
Balenciaga was my religion. Since I’m a believer, for me, there’s Balenciaga, and the good Lord.
I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what’s important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it’s through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
I’m a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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.
People don’t get angry at you for shock value. People get angry at you when you affect something that is at their core, whether it be guns or religion or whatever. Their belief system.
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.
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
You’ll never get me to speak religion. You’ll never get me to speak politics.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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.’
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
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.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
The freedoms of religion, thought and speech are all fundamental rights Canadians not only enjoy, we have fought for them at home and abroad. We know that a vibrant democracy means that on some issues, Canadians will understandably have different views.
Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I’m still very much an atheist, except that I don’t necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that’s a weird thing that I’m struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
I’m ready for a Christianity that ‘ruins’ my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and… well… dangerous. Yes, I want to be ‘dangerous’ to a dull and boring religion.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don’t believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it’s from another century, it’s not for today.
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
My religion is inclusivity.
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.
I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Most people don’t want to talk about politics and religion. They say, ‘Let’s talk about something else.’
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
I saw what religion did to people when I grew up, and I certainly didn’t want any part of it. That turned me off it.
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it’s a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that’s our religion, that’s our football.
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to any nation, nor to any religion, nor exclusively to any race. Wherever woman is found, they are found.
Those nations that say it’s a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they’re doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.
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.
The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion – and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner.
I feel like ‘Leftovers’ is dealing with subject matter that’s kind of taboo when you’re talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
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.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, ‘We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.’
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
I’m not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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.
It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
If I wouldn’t offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.
Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn’t discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they’re two words which are both… different. In spelling.
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what’s new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
The religion of the name of the seas will triumph against the sect of the son of Adaluncatif; The obstinate, lamented sect will be fearful of the two wounded by Aleph and Aleph.
Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.
Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It’s about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
No matter where you’re from, no matter what religion you practice, your ethnicity, race, or anything else – what is it that can bring us together as people? It is, what we call in Hawaii, aloha… sincere, deep love and respect for other people as children of God.
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life – in jeeps – and upset all my dreams.
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.
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
It’s OK to burn a Bible, that’s OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that’s all right. But just, you know, for heaven’s sake, don’t say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion.
Religion is a mixed blessing.
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don’t flaunt religion in conversation with others.
The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting.
I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Freedom of speech wasn’t won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
I come from a Catholic religion, but I’m not Catholic.
Toleration is the best religion.
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It’s perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they’ll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
I’m not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I’ve always liked the Buddhist religion. When I’ve been to Japan, I’ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
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.
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.
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!
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It’s funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I’m not religious at all. I have no religion.
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.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
While in some countries there’s a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India – in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.
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.
We’re so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, ‘under God indivisible,’ but there’s no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn’t be able to go through a day – but that’s my own experience.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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.
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
There’s a lot of misunderstanding out there, particularly in the difference between religion and culture. For example, I hear people criticise Islam for arranged marriages, but that’s nothing to do with Islam. It is the culture in some places, but it’s actually against Islam.
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
My grandad’s a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don’t believe in God in the same way… not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles – it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing – why not put them together?
I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don’t mix.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.
Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out – or worse.
My definition, the definition that I’ve always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one’s own military legion – in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I’ve also learned that this loyalty to one’s corps travels both ways: up and down.
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren’t shy about it – it’s nice there are people who’ve come before that were open about it.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won’t be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
The doctor didn’t want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That’s religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn’t want to give those up.
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.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse – news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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.
To the man who reads ‘Scouting for Boys’ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
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.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader – you really have to be in your own religion.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it’s Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
One person’s religion is another person’s cult.
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it’s a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it’s a risk. If you discuss religion, it’s a risk. But you can’t really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I’m committed to that society… and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine’s attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn’t prevent it being a religious ceremony.
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion – not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran’s theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.
Basic religion is the reason we have morals.
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.
I guess people feel that if you’re working with good directors and are known in the Hindi film industry, then you won’t work in South films. However, I believe that films have no boundaries of language, religion, or cast. If it’s a good script and a good director, I can do a film in Spanish as well.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
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.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn’t try to convince anybody to believe like you do.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
There doesn’t seem to be a religion in ‘Game of Thrones’ that’s totally peaceful… we haven’t seen any Buddhists.
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.
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
No matter your religion or what your political views are, I think there’s one thing we can all agree on. Most human beings are not meant to be alone. I know I’m not.
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
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.
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it’s because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
I wasn’t raised with a specific religion. I wasn’t raised to judge people in any way.
We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
I’m literally fighting for the equality of every man, woman and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation and here to spread a message of peace, love, and positivity.
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.
Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always.
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.
I don’t normally talk about my religion publicly because I don’t want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
I just think religion is something… It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that’s when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors – economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial – which shape and drive human action and reaction and often is the least important of those factors.
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.
If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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.
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it’s people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it’s also a cause for war and bloodshed.
I’m Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it’s half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I’m very much aware of their religion.
I’ve had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
One man’s cult is another man’s religion.
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.
We need to rebuild our nation with a new foundation. A foundation rooted in love, and care, and equality. Where justice is truly real for all of us, regardless of race, class, gender, orientation, or religion. I fully believe we can.
As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience – experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.
What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.
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.
I don’t necessarily believe in organized religion.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it’s actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
I do not have the slightest bit of racism in me. I do not judge people with regards to the colour of their skin, their origin, or their religion. I defend them all, because I defend French people. And, of course, I defend the interests of France, the interests of French people.
I have faith, but I’m not the biggest fan of organised religion. There’s a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
I don’t care what the religion is called; as far as I’m concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business.
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I’m a man that will always follow my own path.
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.
I’m not sure that Liberation Theology has ever satisfactorily resolved the tensions between Marxism’s ‘social naturalism’ (the claim that all beliefs have their origins in social practice) and religion’s supernaturalism (the claims that its beliefs are underwritten by divine will).
My life was changed in one breath from God.
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
You don’t have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It’s all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.
You won’t see Christians violently attacking people for criticising their religion like you do with Islam, things like the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
For me, what’s the old expression, ‘Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,’ that’s really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television.
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.
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.
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.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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.
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.
I’m married to the street; I ain’t gonna switch over. I ain’t gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God – God is for the thugs too – but the streets are in the most trouble. So I’mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That’s what I’m mainly about.
Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Religion is there to say, ‘Hey, you don’t have to worry – there’s an afterlife.’
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
Religion and slavery are incompatible.
To me, film is a religion. I don’t expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.
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.
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
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.
Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.
Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
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.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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.
Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don’t.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
I’m fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it’s so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Spirituality in Washington can be more of a – I don’t want to say it – but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.
No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We’re all just part of Team Human.
After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us – the Supreme Court, President Obama – against traditional religion.
I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they’ll say, ‘Oh that’s dumb, you believe in whatever,’ but I think everybody believes in something.
