When we started, it was so intense: it was like a religion. And when you played with Duane Allman, you either gave it your all or you got out.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold.
I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.
The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
There can be no truce between science and religion.
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.
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
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.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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.
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.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
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.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
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.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
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 is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
