3 December 2020 Abbas Kiarostami Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, ‘Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.’ That’s not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Keneally So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
3 December 2020 Charles Eastman The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
3 December 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
3 December 2020 Angie Stone I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
3 December 2020 Flora Lewis Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn’t alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
3 December 2020 Kristin Hersh The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It’s as close as I get to a religion.
3 December 2020 Edward Bond Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
3 December 2020 Dwight L. Moody There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
3 December 2020 John Paul Stevens The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
3 December 2020 Taslima Nasrin The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
3 December 2020 Frank Herbert When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
3 December 2020 Joan D. Vinge These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
3 December 2020 Margaret Cho Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
3 December 2020 Matthew Fox I am a Westerner. We’re not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it’s like a mirror, saying, hey, can’t you see what’s here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
3 December 2020 Philip Schaff To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
3 December 2020 Simon Callow 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.
3 December 2020 Aaron Neville I was raised Catholic, but my father’s people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
