Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
There are two things in life I never discuss, Religion and Politics. That is the only way one can have a serene life.
The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.
Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.
For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours.
The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.
This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and the ground for any experi...
Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all revolutionaries who critiqued and a...
The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived and disseminated throughout the world by Western civilization; knowledge whose nature has be...
In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going f...
The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...
