There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.
I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
The more I learned about religion in Africa, the more intrigued I became. It was as if the continent was gripped with religious fervor. And the center of it was Uganda.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all... I thought: 'I do not want to go back to medieval times.'
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
