I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.
We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
It is tragic to see how the religious sentiment of the West has become so individualized that concepts such as "a contrite heart," have come to refer only to the personal experiences of guilt and willingness to do penance for it. The awareness of our...
I once asked a rabbi in a large congregation which prayers he used with the dying. "You mean the Mourner's Kaddish?" he asked, referring to the prayer recited on behalf of the deceased. "No," I replied. "I mean the prayers said when a person is actua...
Many people profess a belief in the existence of a spiritual realm, often aligning with their religious training or background. (Recent surveys indicate that, on average, between 48 percent and 59 percent of Europeans claim to believe in an afterlife...
Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a gen...
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim t...
No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
It is extremely obvious to me that the internet is a religious phenomenon
I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?
When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
