I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
True friendship does not freeze in the winter.
There's no physician like a true friend.
True love never grows old.
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement of God's spirit.
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