992 private quotes tagged religion

“Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.”— Mohammed Naguib

“Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.”— Doug E. Fresh

“There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.”— Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”— Mary Astell

“Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.”— Gary Locke

“Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.”— Ruth St. Denis

“It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.”— Herbert Read

“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”— Edward Bond

“I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.”— Chris Matthews

“Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.”— Vaclav Klaus

“Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.”— Sri Chinmoy

“Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.”— Al Goldstein

“The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.”— Randall Terry

“The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.”— Charles Eastman

“It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.”— Huston Smith

“Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.”— Neal Boortz

“We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.”— Jeff Miller

“Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.”— John Comenius

“First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.”— Huston Smith

“Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.”— Huston Smith

“I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.”— Nick Cave

“The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.”— Arnold J. Toynbee

“People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.”— Charles de Secondat

“I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?”— Matthew Fox

“I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.”— Ian MacKaye