I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.
— Tom Perrotta
If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'
— Tom Cruise
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
— Tom Brokaw
The belief in something bigger and supernatural is not the same thing as linear religion.
— Tobias Forge
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level.
— Timothy Morton
There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.
— Tim Pawlenty
I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.
— Tim Kennedy
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
— Tim Bishop
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
— Thomas Paine
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
— Thomas Ken
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
— Thomas Jefferson
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
— Thomas Hardy
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
— Thomas Carlyle
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
— Thomas Aquinas
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
— Theodore White
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.
— Tom C. Clark
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
— Tom Baker
I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.
— Tinie Tempah
As a Catholic, I find mindfulness helps me participate in my religion more wholeheartedly. If you are praying the rosary, participating in the rituals at Mass, or listening to the priest preach, you will actually be paying attention! Whatever your religion is, it can enhance the experience of participating in that religion.
— Tim Ryan
The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves.
— Tim O'Reilly
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.
— Tim Heidecker
Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.
— Thurston Moore
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
— Thomas More
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
— Thomas Huxley
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
— Thomas Erskine
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
— Thomas Bulfinch
Religion is all bunk.
— Thomas A. Edison
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I don't want to make fun of somebody because of the way they look, where they're from, or their religion.
— Tom Green
The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
— Tom Araya
I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
— Tina Turner
If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.
I've been atheist since I became aware of the term, but my material is not all about religion - not by a long shot - and when I do address the topic, it is to point out where religiosity meets discrimination.
— Tim Minchin
If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.
— Tim Conway
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
— Thomas Szasz
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
— Thomas Keneally
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
— Thomas Hobbes
Wonder is the basis of worship.
The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.
— Thomas Becket
Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.
— Theodore Zeldin
