With faith and courage generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture traditions and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity the courage to live by grace.

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

We first fought... in the name of religion then Communism and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator our very self-consciousness is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

No matter the nationality no matter the religion no matter the ethnic background America brings out the best in people.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven the best to hell.

Toleration is the best religion.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion beauty is lifted from its face as a mask and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love but for pleasure it degrades the seeker.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church everyone present knows what is going to happen that night but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

In the world of language or in other words in the world of art and liberal education religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual religion sport art and science awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature it surpasses it.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

All humanity is passion without passion religion history novels art would be ineffectual.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.