3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
3 December 2020 Michael Berryman And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion’s imminent demise.
3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
3 December 2020 Richard John Neuhaus Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan Hey, I’m a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
3 December 2020 Malcolm Muggeridge Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
3 December 2020 Ja Rule Who made these laws? That’s what I want to know. So that’s why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
3 December 2020 Denise Mina If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
3 December 2020 Charles Baudelaire Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
3 December 2020 Rainn Wilson So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don’t live my life that way, and I don’t feel that’s what Baha’u’llah teaches.
3 December 2020 Anjelica Huston I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I’m the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don’t believe. I am constantly between the two.
3 December 2020 Matt Stone With religion I was always like, ‘Does it matter if it’s true if it makes you happy?’
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
3 December 2020 Eddie Izzard I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
3 December 2020 Giovanni Ribisi I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
3 December 2020 Youssou N'Dour I’m a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
3 December 2020 Kirstie Alley When push comes to shove, it ain’t the science that’s going to lift you up-it’s the belief, the spiritual side of life, that’s going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
3 December 2020 George Byron Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Cady Stanton The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
3 December 2020 Jiddu Krishnamurti Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
3 December 2020 Daniel Morgan Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
3 December 2020 Bono Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.