“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.”
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“The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.”
“I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.”
“We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.”
“The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.”
“Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.”
“First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.”
“Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.”
“It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.”
“Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.”
“I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.”
“There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.”
“Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.”
“There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.”
“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.”
“Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?”
“People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.”
“No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.”
“It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.”
“The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.”
“I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?”
“Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.”
“How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?”
“I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.”