The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care. It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share.
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.
Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.
Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.
But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.
Santosh Patel: You only need to convert to three more religions, Piscine, and you'll spend your life on holiday.
Han Solo: Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.
I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wro...
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.
Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
