Best Religion Quotes by famous personalities

They have hijacked my religion.

- Cat Stevens

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I don't think you need religion.

- Terry Jones

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There can be no truce between science and religion.

- John B. S. Haldane

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Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

- Richard Gere

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I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

- Joyce Carol Oates

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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

- E. O. Wilson

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I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

- James Van Der Beek

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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place but a state of mind.

- John Burroughs

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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

- Jorge Luis Borges

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I'm still a person a human being no matter what religion I am.

- T-Pain

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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion it is sex.

- Hugh Hefner

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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

- Thomas Jefferson

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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools not a religion.

- Bill Keller

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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

- John Updike

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If there is a God atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

- Edmond de Goncourt

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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

- Andrew Sullivan

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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

- Voltaire

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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

- Charles Baudelaire

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The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room in my family in my heart.

- Anita Diament

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Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations and where is our religion? We have none.

- Joseph Smith Jr.

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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality but morality touched by emotion.

- Matthew Arnold

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Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

- Bodhidharma

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You know I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

- Natalie Portman

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I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist one-quarter Catholic one-quarter Jewish.

- Tom T. Hall

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I call religion a natural authority but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

- Herbert Read

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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

- Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse and morality without religion is impossible.

- Mark Hopkins

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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

- Mary Douglas

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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

- Christy Turlington

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No philosophy no religion has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

- Annie Besant

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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

- Cat Stevens

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Some people are that - more than a parent more than a role model more than anything less than a religion.

- Margaret Cho

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Religion and philosophy philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

- Eddie Izzard

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I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

- Bill Maher

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I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

- Erykah Badu

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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

- Mary Douglas

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I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

- Nikki Haley

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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

- Ram Dass

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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

- Robert Shea

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There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.

- Dalai Lama

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I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

- Simon Callow

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People here argue about religion interminably but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

- Charles de Secondat

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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

- Vera Farmiga

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

- Lord Chesterfield

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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

- Jack Dee

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We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

- Bill Maher

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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

- E. O. Wilson

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Whether one believes in a religion or not and whether one believes in rebirth or not there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

- Dalai Lama

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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion as organized in its Churches has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

- Bertrand Russell

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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

- Luke Ford

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If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

- Denise Mina

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Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion say or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

- Jon Meacham

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Both of my parents would say they were atheists so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible no Torah just the love religion.

- Lisa Bonet

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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Where 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.

- Daniel Morgan

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Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

- Brigham Young

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Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

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I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

- Chris Matthews

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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

- Yahoo Serious

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Too many younger artists critics and curators are fetishizing the sixties transforming the period into a deformed cult a fantasy religion a hip brand and a crippling disease.

- Jerry Saltz

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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

- Mary Douglas

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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

- Mary Douglas

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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

- Criss Angel

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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

- Abdurrahman Wahid

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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

- Gael Garcia Bernal

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I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.

- Jonathan Swift

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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

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I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand I pray on the other hand I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

- Anjelica Huston

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What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion that old singing that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being of my writing.

- Ernest Gaines

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The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

- Cat Stevens

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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character born for religion comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment and spiritual life begins again.

- Mary Augusta Ward

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There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works and men's own righteousness and.

- Jonathan Edwards

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

- Charles Baudelaire

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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

- Julia Child

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My political ideas and things like that even my religion I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world I'm just an entertainer.

- Donny Osmond

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In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

- Cat Stevens

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One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

- Ray Comfort

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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

- Martin Scorsese

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Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

- Lord Melbourne

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If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

- Brian Eno

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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

- Carol P. Christ

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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

- Brian Eno

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I think there's a difference between God and religion.

- Sinead O'Connor

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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

- Brian Eno

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If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

- Martin Amis

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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.

- Tori Amos

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

- Chaim Potok

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The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

- Peter Ustinov

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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

- Lafcadio Hearn

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My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

- Art Linkletter

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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

- Studs Terkel

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There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

- Michael Moore

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To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

- Reese Witherspoon

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Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

- George Gurdjieff

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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

- Arthur Wellesley

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I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

- Daniel Radcliffe

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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

- Arthur Wellesley

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Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

- Daniel Radcliffe

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