Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths or the Roman myths or religious figures of every religion. These are common characters that we use to express stories about being a better person or what you would do when faced with various things.
I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.
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.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
I do not stop repeating it to French Jews... Not only is the National Front not your enemy, but it is without a doubt the best shield to protect you. It stands at your side for the defense of our freedoms of thought and of religion against the only real enemy: Islamist fundamentalism.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.
It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in 'religion.' I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.
Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.
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.
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.
President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.
We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,' which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration.
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
Terrorists have no religion, belief, or race. Having been a target of a number of terrorist attacks myself, I personally empathize with the victims of terrorism and appreciate their need for protection.
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.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
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.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.
I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
