I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.

Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

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.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

As an ethnically Asian Muslim, born and bred in this country, I am British. I have never felt a conflict between my country, my religion, and my background.

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.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.

Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure, thus giving an appearance of inclusiveness.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.