The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
