It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Energy energy? Energy is is it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

The first act of religion therefore concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

If there ever was a militant religion it was that of early New England.

In course of time religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

As I have pointed out it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family to religion to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible no Torah just the love religion.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class race religion and geography.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring my grounding the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First in the Russian Orthodox religion there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer but art is very self-referential whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.