Whether one believes or not religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive it remains vital inspiring great good and sometimes great evil.

These days politics religion media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

I believe in the separation of church and state but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion and distorts both.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.

Forget sex or politics or religion loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

In politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.

Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.

But it is the province of religion of philosophy of pure poetry only to go beyond life beyond time into eternity.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion all in one.

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

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions the Children of Abraham.

Not just Christians and Jews but also Muslims Buddhists Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace respect tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

Religion brings to man an inner strength spiritual light and ineffable peace.

But in terms of how people live together how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace the place of religion in our society today is essential.

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.