No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Noah Webster on religion
I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort. Jewel on religion
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. Kenneth Robert Livingstone on religion
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion. Richard John Neuhaus on religion
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult. Craig Bruce on religion
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. Shirin Ebadi on religion
I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself. Tina Turner on religion
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. Mary Astell on religion
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. Pete Seeger on religion
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. Ruth St. Denis on religion
Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts. Pat Buckley on religion
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish. Barbara Walters on religion
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. George Will on religion
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. Gary Locke on religion
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar on religion
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. Harry Emerson Fosdick on religion
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. Jeane Kirkpatrick on religion
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. Jeane Kirkpatrick on religion
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion. Josh McDowell on religion
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. Herbert Read on religion