Famous Quotes
- Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
- Michael Bloomberg on Religion
- When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
- Uma Thurman on Religion
- When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
- A. N. Wilson on Religion
- When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Religion
- When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln on Religion
- When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh on Religion
- When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
- Kathie Lee Gifford on Religion
- 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.
- Irvine Welsh on Religion
- When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
- When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
- Frank Herbert on Religion
- When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
- John Woolman on Religion
- When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
- Joseph Lancaster on Religion
- When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
- Kirstie Alley on Religion
- When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
- Honore De Balzac on Religion
- When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
- Walter Jon Williams on Religion
- When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
- Desmond Tutu on Religion
- When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
- Daniel Bell on Religion
- When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
- Karen Armstrong on Religion
- When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.
- Henrique Capriles Radonski on Religion
- Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- John Morley on Religion
- Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Religion
- Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
- Daniel Morgan on Religion
- Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
- Elie Wiesel on Religion
- Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Dalai Lama on Religion
- Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.
- Jon Meacham on Religion
- Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
- Vera Farmiga on Religion
- Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
- Dalai Lama on Religion
- Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
- Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?
- Tony Campolo on Religion
- Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Religion
- 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.
- Jerry Costello on Religion
- With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
- Matt Stone on Religion
- Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
- Taslima Nasrin on Religion
- Wonder is the basis of worship.
- Thomas Carlyle on Religion
- Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel on Religion
- Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
- Bodhidharma on Religion
- Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Religion
- Yoga is not a religion to me.
- Christy Turlington on Religion
- You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
- Geraldine Brooks on Religion
- You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
- Swami Vivekananda on Religion
- You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
- Joni Mitchell on Religion
- You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
- Marco Rubio on Religion
- You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
- Natalie Portman on Religion
- You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
- Deepak Chopra on Religion
- You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
- John Ruskin on Religion
- You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.
- You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
- King Abdullah II on Religion
- Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
- Khalil Gibran on Religion
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
- Karen Armstrong on Religion
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