I don’t practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you’re an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don’t, we don’t.
The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.
The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself.
Religion doesn’t make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion – and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner.
I’m going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It’s all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
The closest thing to religion our family had was worshipping The Beatles.
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it’s still the best way of looking at the world for Indians – better than any organized religion in this country.
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation – I don’t care what religion it is.
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
I’m not a Christian. My participation in music is so full blast, 24 hours a day. And that’s my religion. I think I’m as spiritual as the pope, because I spend as much time in my spirituality as he does.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
