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My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

When any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened — which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure — men need to pray for fair weather.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.

Thomas Jefferson

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.

Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

G. K. Chesterton

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

John F. Kennedy

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The God Spinoza revered is my God, too: I meet Him everyday in the harmonious laws which govern the universe. My religion is cosmic, and my God is too universal to concern himself with the intentions of every human being. I do not accept a religion of fear; My God will not hold me responsible for the actions that necessity imposes. My God speaks to me through laws.

Albert Einstein

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

How could they say that my religion, Islam, was a "race hate" religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

Memento mori and obey the Lord.
Art and religion love the somber chord.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and moral purpose.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for, as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed; and as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances.

No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.