Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.
— Pierre Niney
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
— Pico Iyer
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
— Philip Schaff
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
— Phil Ochs
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
— Peter T. King
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
— Peter L. Berger
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
— Peter Jennings
Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'
— Peter Greenaway
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.
— Pete Seeger
Gadhafi was a monster who ruled his country for 42 years with an iron fist and became an international pariah as a result. However, he found religion once he recognized his perilous position when the U.S. adopted an uncompromising response to international terrorism following 9/11.
— Pete Hoekstra
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
— Penn Jillette
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
— Paulo Coelho
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
— Pierre de Coubertin
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
— Phillips Brooks
One person's religion is another person's cult.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
— Philip Kerr
I grew up without religion, but my parents have always been somewhat mystical about nature: The mountain is looking at us, stuff like that.
— Phil Elverum
So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.
— Peter Singer
I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
— Peter Benenson
It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.
— Pete Sampras
I think there's an opportunity hopefully for religion to be not so much used as a cudgel but invoked as a way of calling us to higher values.
— Pete Buttigieg
When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.
— Pedro Sanchez
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!
— Pauline Phillips
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.
— Phillip E. Johnson
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
— Philip James Bailey
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
— Peter Ustinov
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.
— Peter Marshall
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.
— Peter Guber
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.
— Pete Townshend
Religion often is very embarrassing, and I totally get it. So I am sort of sometimes burdened with the fact that I love talking about it with anybody. Not just religious people.
— Pete Holmes
You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
— Pearl S. Buck
