“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.”
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“In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.”
“People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.”
“When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.”
“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”
“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.”
“If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.”
“Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.”
“Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.”
“Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.”
“Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.”
“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”
“Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.”
“I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.”
“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.”
“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.”
“I hold that religion and faith are two different things.”
“It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?”
“We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.”
“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”
“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”