I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color but the candle is always there.
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience no matter what religion or color of their skin or situation in life.
I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
It is then by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy that we can by checking them as we go along and comparing them trace out finally the body that produced them.
I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America to believe what they want pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.
Every society and religion has rules for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists as in art of drawing the line somewhere.
You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
In the 21st century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life regardless of race or religion.
I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
I know it's very idealistic and utopian but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion groups or nations or region.
There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
Every man either to his terror or consolation has some sense of religion.
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face some side of God.
If religion had a good purpose then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts the university religion culture minorities Europe: ruining it.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
If you really want to diminish a candidate depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.