Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other God or the gods and with the human other the stranger.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I grew up very religious and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

It is a truism that almost any sect cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

In the long term the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive modern direction. But that's the long term.

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Moreover behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

Well I think any time you delve into this sort of religion politics as you well know you're going to you know touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life and that's race religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion but I love what the message is.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Religion has to stay in the heart not in politics. It is private.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say 'Let's talk about something else.'

Skip the religion and politics head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

I mean I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.