Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.

I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

The core of my life is Islam, my religion. Without that, I have no strength, no belief in God or in myself.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

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