992 private quotes tagged religion

“I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.” — James Lovelock

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“I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.” — Neale Donald Walsch

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“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.” — Paul Tillich

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“The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.” — David Bowie

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“I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.” — Barney Frank

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“Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.” — Peter Jennings

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“The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.” — John Maynard Keynes

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“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.” — Karen Armstrong

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“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.” — E. O. Wilson

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“I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.” — John Burroughs

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“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.” — David Hume

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“The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.” — Sojourner Truth

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“My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.” — Marilyn Manson

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“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.” — George Santayana

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“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.” — Abdurrahman Wahid

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“After all, is football a game or a religion?” — Howard Cosell

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“Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.” — Dennis Prager

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“For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.” — Albert Ellis

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“A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.” — Jon Meacham

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