The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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.
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you must be ready to stand up for what you think. Decide what you really think is best, and stick with it.
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.
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Religion and science look at reality differently.
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.
You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion.
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.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.
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.
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
As I see it, religion shouldn't interfere in a relationship.
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
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.
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.