I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.
As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
Islam is misunderstood by many. The extremists grab the headlines; those of us who want to practise our religion and live under this country's laws do not make the news.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.
If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
It's OK to burn a Bible, that's OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that's all right. But just, you know, for heaven's sake, don't say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
