Quotes of: Religions Keyword

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Heinrich Heine

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Neil Young

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Annie Besant

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Andrew Greeley

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

B. R. Ambedkar

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Ian Mcewan

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.

John Henrik Clarke

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Richard Rohr

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

Taslima Nasrin

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Emile Durkheim

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Bill O'Reilly

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

Asghar Farhadi

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Van Morrison

By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Fou...

The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America

I say this because all religions, accurately understood, will take away your fear of not being enough. I believe there is a way to understand the tenets of your religion, right now, that will take away your fear and make you feel loved and safe. The ...

Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

Dream a Little Dream

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The Age of Reason

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols