The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
— Ziggy Marley
We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
— Zhang Zhidong
I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
— Zayn Malik
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
— Zach Anner
A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.
— Yvonne Orji
Religion is a huge part of me; I'm a practicing Muslim. I'm pretty much open about it if people were to answer questions. At the end of the day, I'm just a normal girl. I have my own beliefs just like everyone else. I have a strong belief in something, but I also love music.
— Yuna
I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
— Youssou N'Dour
Obviously, since 9/11, here in this country there has been a resurgence of fear and people feeling distrustful of other people that are different. And what we chose to do was to focus on people coming together, working across those barriers of race, of culture, of religion, and really finding a heart connection.
— Yolanda King
Religion is a comprehensive concept. According to our learned people, our scholars, to pave the path for public welfare in worldly life and to provide spiritual uplift is part of religion. I think a yogi can do both things quite easily. And I manage to balance both worldly and spiritual concerns.
— Yogi Adityanath
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
— Yehuda Amichai
There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts to feel like a prison, I'm not interested.
— Yasmine Hamdan
The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
— Yair Lapid
In hockey, it was a freak show. I'm the son of actors and from California, and in Canada, hockey is a religion, so me coming in, it was like, 'Who the hell is this guy?' I just had to put my head down and work really hard, and it was difficult, but it made me who I am and gave me a backbone.
— Wyatt Russell
Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.
— Wole Soyinka
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
— William Winwood Reade
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.
— William T. Vollmann
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
— William Robertson Smith
Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.
In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.
— Zal Batmanglij
Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.
Islam is a peaceful religion.
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
— Youssef Ziedan
Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.
— Yolanda Hadid
I have said it previously and saying it again... my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion.
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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.
— Yann Martel
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
— Yahoo Serious
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
— Woodrow Wilson
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
— William Wallace
I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
— Zachary Levi
Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.
— Zac Goldsmith
If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.
— Yuval Noah Harari
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Recall when the Congress-led government was in power; then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had talked about who had rights to the country's resources. He had, taking the name of a religion, planted the seed of appeasement politics in the country. The result of Congress' appeasement policy is terrorism.
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
— Yehuda Berg
I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
— Yael Naim
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
— Win Butler
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
— William S. Burroughs
