He however who begins with Metaphysics will not only become confused in matters of religion but will fall into complete infidelity.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
If you want to move people you look for a point of sensitivity and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven but to get heaven into him.
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego their identity.
Joy in the universe and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Hey I'm a Catholic deer hunter I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion the other by it.
I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
But even in the Christian religion much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion no political party and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way ours is merely another way.
Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course that's a total joke and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people and then they come after you with machetes.
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right versus what you were doing which was wrong.