There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

I'm not a religious person and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion but I do like having some sort of communal gathering and having some sense of peoples.

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time I felt like I had learned another language mastered a new culture adopted a new religion.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.

First of all my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

We establish no religion in this country nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

Let us have but one end in view the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language nationality or religion.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

Mysticism poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color but the candle is always there.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty for in it are born our art our science our religion.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds they would remain so.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Nevertheless there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness just as Greek drama had once done.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I call religion a natural authority but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.