I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Peter Jennings on religion
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. Ben Kingsley on religion
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church. Tom Brokaw on religion
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. Jack Kevorkian on religion
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. H. P. Blavatsky on religion
My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus. Mandy Patinkin on religion
Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. Naguib Mahfouz on religion
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. Hans Kung on religion
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. Jeremy Bentham on religion
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? Mary Douglas on religion
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! Abigail Van Buren on religion
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. Ville Valo on religion
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. Ian Mcewan on religion
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. Walter Savage Landor on religion
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! Sydney Smith on religion
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. Henri Bergson on religion
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind. Steven Seagal on religion
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up. Mandy Moore on religion
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. David Eagleman on religion