Religion quotes

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Yoga is not a religion to me.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.