Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
For me, church was about not only religion but about community. A woman in my grandmother’s church helped pay for my SAT classes when I was in high school and drove me there every week.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Religion is man’s attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself.
Christianity is a very historical religion – it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin – but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I’m happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I’d say my religion was more surfing than Judaism – that’s what I spent most of my time doing.
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it’s more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don’t practice or preach it, however.
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
