I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.
We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
There's never been a particular band that I've followed religiously. But I do tend to listen to sadder music.
The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.
I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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.
Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.
I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.
