3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
3 December 2020 Swami Sivananda Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off ‘Thought for the Day’ when it comes on the radio.
3 December 2020 Kit Williams The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
3 December 2020 Clive Bell Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer I’m interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I’m not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
3 December 2020 Daniel Bell When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
3 December 2020 George Gurdjieff Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
3 December 2020 Robert Shea To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out – or worse.
3 December 2020 Dalai Lama We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
3 December 2020 John Shelby Spong It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don’t want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
3 December 2020 Bonnie Raitt Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
3 December 2020 Ben Kingsley The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
3 December 2020 James Anthony Froude The secret of a person’s nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
3 December 2020 Shahrukh Khan I know it’s very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.
3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
3 December 2020 Keanu Reeves I mean, I went to a Catholic boys’ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
3 December 2020 Morris Raphael Cohen Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
3 December 2020 Henry Cabot Lodge True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ The women’s movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
3 December 2020 Criss Angel I like to say magic is the world’s second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
