3 December 2020 Paul Harris In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
3 December 2020 George A. Smith We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
3 December 2020 Sophia Bush There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Ramone I started listening to and playing other music in the ’90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
3 December 2020 Johannes Tauler Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
3 December 2020 Trey Parker I grew up with the religion of ‘Star Wars,’ frankly. That’s when I realized there is something bigger out there… and it’s called The Force.
3 December 2020 Neale Donald Walsch Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
3 December 2020 Paul Tillich Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
3 December 2020 Geraldine Brooks You can’t write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I’m very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
3 December 2020 John Comenius Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
3 December 2020 William Robertson Smith Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
3 December 2020 Lisa Bonet Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don’t know. But it’s natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
3 December 2020 Dennis Prager If your religion doesn’t teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
3 December 2020 Lionel Blue My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
3 December 2020 Lord Melbourne Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
3 December 2020 Larry David Religion doesn’t play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don’t think I’ve ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word ‘Jew’ or saying it myself.
