I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.

When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of our constitutional guarantee for all persons of this country.

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.

The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.