I am still moved by passages of Marx: the ‘Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,’ for example, where, after the famous line about religion being ‘the opium of the people,’ he goes on to call it ‘the heart of a heartless world.’
I know Marco Rubio very well. He’s a friend of mine. He’s a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and – you know, for whom religion is very important.
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
For me, I feed off everything, from bad politics to religion to relationships – I mean, just life in general. And, yeah, I’m not necessarily happy with the state of things. And I think that I get to use music as a release.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men’s souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn’t mean that I have to change my religion.
Religion has given me a new drive in life. Life feels a lot easier than it ever did before.
We all are Indians, and that should be our only religion. What is the need to be called a Hindu, Muslim, or Christian? Does anybody have any religion or caste at the time of birth?
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that’s usually what I focus on.
We need a new order of ministers to stand in pulpits. It’s not enough to sing and praise God in worship services. Any religion that doesn’t encourage us to work together to end the needless suffering all around us is godless.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
