Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we're not in control, and we don't understand as much as we think do.
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.
A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
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.
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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.
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
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.
The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.
Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.
I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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.
