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.
