I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

I know America is very nice and very good people. I'm a professional athlete. I come here. I never have a problem with somebody about my religion, about my name. I am happy. I'm always comfortable because I never do anything wrong. All the time I do something right. I follow all the rules.

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country of the singer. It doesn't matter, even if it is in another language, because I love the music.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.

No human being, religion, nation, and sect can deny respect to mother.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

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.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people.