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.
The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.
I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.
The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can't deal with them.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
