Quotes on Religion

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

I think football is a game where people come together and football should bring everybody together, whether it is religion or skin colour or where you come from. We should be happy to enjoy that moment together, those 90 minutes where we can show love. Because I think football is love - and when love is not there, for what should we play?

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.