Well the first time I ran into the term religion people were asking whether you had any. You know some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

Nations are equal in respect to each other and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government religion or manners.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation philosophy religion.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so like corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character born for religion comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment and spiritual life begins again.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion not freedom from religion.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious but I want to live and breathe cinema.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion but I'm not committed to any specific one.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

I think people often come to the synagogue mosque the church looking for God and what we give them is religion.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life and its improvement from one generation to another.

So I remember both medicine because I frequently sick particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand I pray on the other hand I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

In both religion and science some people are dishonest exploitative incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion not freedom from religion.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.