“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.”
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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.”
“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”
“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.”
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
“All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.”
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
“Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!”
“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.”
“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.”
“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.”
“No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.”
“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
“With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.”
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
“See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.”