3 December 2020 Dalai Lama Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
3 December 2020 Liam Neeson But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
3 December 2020 Alexis Carrel Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
3 December 2020 Arlen Specter The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
3 December 2020 Moses See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.
3 December 2020 Zbigniew Brzezinski Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn’t had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I’m not defined by where I came from. 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.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein True religion is real living living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
3 December 2020 Josh McDowell Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
3 December 2020 Duane Chapman We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he’s given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.
3 December 2020 Franz Liszt Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ’s religion illuminates with His divine light.
3 December 2020 Natalie Portman You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
3 December 2020 Charles de Secondat Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
3 December 2020 Bear Grylls Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
3 December 2020 Phillip E. Johnson The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.
3 December 2020 Kathie Lee Gifford For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.
3 December 2020 Will Smith I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art.
3 December 2020 Pearl S. Buck It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe I’ve had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
