992 private quotes tagged religion

“I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.”— Jewel

“I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.”— Jane Seymour

“The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.”— Harry Browne

“My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.”— Steven Seagal

“I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.”— Peter Jennings

“There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.”— Ernest Istook

“My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.”— Jack Kevorkian

“Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.”— Hans Kung

“Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!”— Abigail Van Buren

“My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.”— Mandy Patinkin

“What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!”— Sydney Smith

“I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.”— Sean Hannity

“We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.”— Shirin Ebadi

“It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.”— Craig Bruce

“I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.”— Tina Turner

“Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.”— Kary Mullis

“I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.”— Herbert Read

“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.”— Ralph W. Sockman

“Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.”— Hannah More

“Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.”— Pat Buckley

“I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.”— Pete Seeger

“Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.”— Josh McDowell

“Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.”— George Byron

“We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.”— Herbert Read

“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.”— Ernestine Rose