A cult is a religion with no political power.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

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.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

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.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

After all, is football a game or a religion?

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

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.

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

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.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

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.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

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.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

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.

I broke with my religion in college.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

I do engineering, not religion.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.

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.

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.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

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 don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

I don't think you need religion.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

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 have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

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.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

I love religion.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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.

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.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

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.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

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.

I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.

I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

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.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.

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.

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

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.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

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.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

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!

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

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.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

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.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

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.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

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.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

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.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

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.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

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.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

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.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

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.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

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.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

Music is my religion.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

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.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

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.

My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

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.

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.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

My religion lies in my composition.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

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.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

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.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

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.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.