You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning,...
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
Golf was never a religion to me.
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
