We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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.
History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
I believe religion is important for every person.
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.
To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.
Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
