“The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.”
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“I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.”
“Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.”
“The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.”
“Religion is a mixed blessing.”
“It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.”
“The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.”
“Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.”
“I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.”
“What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.”
“No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.”
“Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.”
“The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.”
“It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.”
“God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.”
“I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.”
“When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.”
“Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.”
“Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.”
“The world is my country, science is my religion.”
“The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
“I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.”
“My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.”
“The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.”