Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.
My 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.
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America.
I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
I was brought up a Muslim and I respect the religion I was born into, but I don't practise it. However, I do believe in thanking God for my happy life.
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
After all, is football a game or a religion?
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.
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.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.
My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.