3 December 2020 David O. Selznick The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
3 December 2020 Epictetus Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
3 December 2020 David Hume Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
3 December 2020 Nick Cave I’m a believer. I don’t go to church. I don’t belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn’t write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
3 December 2020 Donny Osmond I am not going to condemn anybody. That’s where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
3 December 2020 Joseph Smith, Jr. Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
3 December 2020 Ray Comfort One of Dawkins’ major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
3 December 2020 Charles Eastman 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.
3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960’s.
3 December 2020 Donald Cargill I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
3 December 2020 Jon Meacham 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Watts Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Donald In Lincoln’s day a President’s religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln’s countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
3 December 2020 Patrick Wilson I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting.
3 December 2020 Arthur Wellesley Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
3 December 2020 Louise Mensch I’m not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn’t write them today because of my religion.
3 December 2020 Tom Baker We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
3 December 2020 Alan Dershowitz Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
3 December 2020 Nicole Scherzinger Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I’m nothing without it.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
3 December 2020 Martin Amis If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
3 December 2020 Eddie Izzard Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they’re two words which are both… different. In spelling.
