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.
