Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
— Richard Dawkins
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.
— Richard Coles
Rock n' roll is like a religion.
— Richard Ashcroft
I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
— Ricardo Montalban
Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids.
— Rhea Perlman
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.
— Reza Aslan
We must stand up and fight for an America that welcomes young doers and dreamers instead of categorically denying entry to so many simply based on their religion or country of origin.
— Reshma Saujani
Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!
— Rene Girard
I feel like 'Leftovers' is dealing with subject matter that's kind of taboo when you're talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.
— Regina King
Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.
— Raymond Moody
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?
— Ravi Zacharias
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
— Rashid al-Ghannushi
For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
— Randall Terry
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
— Ramakrishna
One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
— Richard Chamberlain
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
— Richard Adams
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
— Ricardo Lagos
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.
I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society' because the former have religion.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
— Reese Witherspoon
A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.
It was part of your religion to hate the British.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.
— Ray Comfort
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
— Richard Burton
I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.
— Rich Cohen
The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.
— Ricardo Alarcon
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.
Jerusalem is the united capital of Israel. Since 1967, anyone can practice his religion according to his own conscience and complete free will.
— Reuven Rivlin
Humanity is the child of religion.
I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus.
— Reinhard Bonnke
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.
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.
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
— Raymond Sokolov
My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.
— Ray Bradbury
When will the world start believing that the biggest religion of all is humanity?
— Raveena Tandon
I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
— Randy Bachman
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
