We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.
Religion theme aside, most of the time I’m in some sort of comedy and I’m a straight man and it’s really just, let’s wind this guy up and see him explode.
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.
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.
I think of religion as man’s attempt to reach God, and you can’t do that.
I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
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.
I believe religion is man-made.
We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Whatever religion you believe in, if you take almighty’s name and follow his words obediently, you will be safe to an extent.
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.
Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.
I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don’t practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life.
The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.
Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don’t necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren’t religious.
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where’s the harm? September 11th changed all that.
