All Quotes

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
‐‐ Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
‐‐ Vinod Khosla

Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
‐‐ Alexis Carrel

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
‐‐ Pat Buckley

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
‐‐ Bono

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
‐‐ Mary Douglas

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
‐‐ Jonathan Sacks

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
‐‐ Steve Hackett

Religion does not consist in making a noise, yet when the soul is filled with the Spirit of the Lord, sweet, heart-felt praise to God glorifies him.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
‐‐ Reza Aslan

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.
‐‐ Larry David

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
‐‐ Edward Bond

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
‐‐ John Updike

Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
‐‐ James Madison

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
‐‐ Abdolkarim Soroush

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.
‐‐ James Heckman

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
‐‐ Garry Marshall

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
‐‐ Ayad Akhtar

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.
‐‐ Max Heindel

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
‐‐ Larry Flynt

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
‐‐ Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
‐‐ Anatole France

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
‐‐ Robert Winston

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
‐‐ Dave Brat

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.
‐‐ Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.
‐‐ Chino Moreno

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
‐‐ George Santayana

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

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

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
‐‐ Georges Bizet

Religion is a mixed blessing.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong