I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
Copy Quote View & ShareSecularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Copy Quote View & ShareInstead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.
Copy Quote View & ShareLeave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Copy Quote View & ShareI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Copy Quote View & SharePatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Copy Quote View & ShareReligion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always.
Copy Quote View & ShareI 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhere you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Copy Quote View & ShareI told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
Copy Quote View & ShareI just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
Copy Quote View & ShareEven 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.
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