992 private quotes tagged religion

“It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.” — Dixie Lee Ray

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“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.” — Joan D. Vinge

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“India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.” — Sri Aurobindo

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“The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.” — Tom Wolfe

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“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

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“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.” — Edward F. Halifax

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“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.” — Honore de Balzac

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“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!” — O. Henry

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“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.” — Annie Dillard

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“Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.” — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.” — Ernie Harwell

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“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.” — Douglas William Jerrold

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“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” — Serj Tankian

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