3 December 2020 Midge Ure You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion.
3 December 2020 Bernice Johnson Reagon Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn’t have religion.
3 December 2020 H. P. Blavatsky It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
3 December 2020 Ernest Holmes But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
3 December 2020 Nick Rahall I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.
3 December 2020 Tom Perrotta I’ve been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
3 December 2020 Tina Turner I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don’t believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
3 December 2020 Richard Le Gallienne All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
3 December 2020 Sri Chinmoy Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
3 December 2020 William Blake Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
3 December 2020 Billy Sunday The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there’s bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
3 December 2020 Craig Bruce It’s a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
3 December 2020 Recep Tayyip Erdogan As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
3 December 2020 Tim Bishop Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
3 December 2020 Luke Ford I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
3 December 2020 Alexander Chase More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
