3 December 2020 Yann Martel How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
3 December 2020 Dennis Potter Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe.
3 December 2020 Sri Aurobindo That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
3 December 2020 Brian Eno If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
3 December 2020 Kathie Lee Gifford When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
3 December 2020 Bodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
3 December 2020 Steven Seagal My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.
3 December 2020 Bill Maher We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.
3 December 2020 Peter Jennings I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
3 December 2020 John D. Rockefeller After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.
3 December 2020 Ernestine Rose It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
3 December 2020 Reese Witherspoon To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
3 December 2020 Alice Cooper I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don’t even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
3 December 2020 Paul Tournier Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
3 December 2020 Tori Amos The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
3 December 2020 Randall Terry For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
3 December 2020 Heinrich Heine Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Bentham No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
3 December 2020 Zachary Levi People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it.
3 December 2020 Ernest Istook Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
3 December 2020 Jeane Kirkpatrick Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn’t manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
