The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
Copy Quote View & ShareI believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.
Copy Quote View & ShareTake away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Copy Quote View & ShareI have faith, but I'm not the biggest fan of organised religion. There's a lot of hypocrites in church. A lot of hypocrites.
Copy Quote View & ShareGod's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.
Copy Quote View & ShareJoy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
Copy Quote View & ShareSuch is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
Copy Quote View & ShareGo beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Copy Quote View & ShareTolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Copy Quote View & ShareIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhat is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
Copy Quote View & ShareSome have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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