Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.