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.
