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Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For By Will Durant Religion Men Art Past Begins

What is Religion according to you?"Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you. By Vishwas Mudagal Religion Life Practice Ideals Idea

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist. By Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar Sense Fact Atheist Religious

Religion is politics in the spiritual realm By Bangambiki Habyarimana Religion Realm Politics Spiritual

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God. By Philip Appleman God Religion History Kneedeep Innocents

It is little wonder then that the term "religious" is often a pejorative one indicating an escapist, self-righteous, other-worldly or perhaps superstitious stance toward life. Nor should this come as any surprise, in light of all we have been saying of the pervasiveness of the false self. Since religion deals with the ultimate realities of life, it is understandable that religion would draw out the ultimate in the false self's basic disorientation and blindness. The false self can have but false gods, all of which in the end turn out to be but reflections of the false self as it worships itself and sets itself up as the reason for its own existence. By James Finley False Religious Selfrighteous Life Term

Religion is what you do with your solitude. By William Temple Religion Solitude

For limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence. By Robert Neelly Bellah Existence Limited Purposes Define Religion

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. By Abraham Joshua Heschel Religion Affair Loyalty Impersonal Institutional

Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque. By Karen Salmansohn Religious People Synagogue Simply Major

Religion means to know God and to love Him. By A.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada God Religion Love

I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance. By Malcolm Muggeridge Religious Regard Temper Mind Form

The cosmopolitan gaze of planetary love and hospitality _is_ what constitutes being _religious_. By Namsoon Kang Religious Hospitality Cosmopolitan Gaze Planetary

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. Paul Tillich By Paul Tillich Religion Life Concern State Grasped

Religion is a mixed blessing. By John Shelby Spong Religion Blessing Mixed

Religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, developmentbegun now and ending never. By Anna Julia Cooper Religion Credos Growth Great Deal

Religionthat voice of the deepest human experience. By Matthew Arnold Religionthat Experience Voice Deepest Human

Religion is the organized attempt to understand spiritual experience, to interpret it with words and concepts, and to use this interpretation as the source of moral guidelines for the religious community. By Fritjof Capra Religion Experience Concepts Community Organized

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness. By Alfred North Whitehead Religion Solitariness Person

DON'T TALK RELIGION UNLESS YOU PRACTICE ONE By Kunal Narayan Uniyal Talk Religion Practice

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be. By Benjamin Whichcote Religion God Man

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am. By Gian Carlo Menotti People Religious

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is. By Mario Cuomo Organized Spirituality Belief Religion

Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself. By Charles Fletcher Dole Religion Healthy Normal Life

We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion. By James K.a. Smith Buddhists Atheists Christians Interpretive Framework

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him. By Matthew Henry God Fashion Heaven Easy Religious

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time. By Herbie Hancock Religious Spiritual Time Person Long

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion. By Russell Crowe Kid Religion Young Interested

Religion is the pious worship of God. By Marcus Tullius Cicero God Religion Pious Worship

If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really. By Viktor E. Frankl Supermeaning Call Religious Terminology Religious

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility. By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Religion Feeling Anger Pain Hatred

Religion is life essential. By George Macdonald Religion Essential Life

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself. By Martin Luther King Jr. Religion Horizontal Men Integrate Operates

A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanaticism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions. By Gustave Le Bon Divinity Mind Actions Person Religious

Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge. By Spencer W. Kimball Man Naturally Religious Father Prays

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious. By Mika. Religion Religious Fascinated

Religion: Something comparable to childhood neurosis By Sigmund Freud Religion Neurosis Comparable Childhood

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual. By Bertrand Russell Religion Dogmas Dominating Life Evidence

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion. By Joe Meno Religion Complicated Relationship Institutionalized

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. By Henry Ward Beecher Spirit Christian Religion Character Life

I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion. By Ruth Rendell Religious Religion Interested

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. By William James Solemn Religious Tender Attitude Denominate

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness. By Alfred North Whitehead Religion Solitariness Man

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious. By Julie Burchill Body Religious Spiritual Bone

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher. By Elaine Pagels Problematic Religion Study Find Fascinating

Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces that are invisible, intangible, inaudible and otherwise undetectable by any natural means. By Greta Christina Intangible Belief Forces Religion World

Observing these people narrowly, even when the iron hand of misfortune has shaken them from their unquestioning hold on the world, one sees little trace of religion, still less of a distinctively Christian creed. Their belief in the unseen, so far as it manifests itself at all, seems to be rather of a pagan kind; their moral notions, though held with strong tenacity, seem to have no standard beyond hereditary custom. By George Eliot Christian Observing Narrowly World Religion

Religion?" "The fashionable substitute for belief. By Oscar Wilde Religion Belief Fashionable Substitute

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous. By Lucy Larcom Love Heavenly Life Religion Vigorous

You live in days when a lingering, Lot-like religion abounds. The stream of profession is far broader than it once was, but far less deep in many places. A certain kind of Christianity is almost fashionable now. To belong to some party in the Church of England, and show a zeal for its intereststo talk about the leading controversies of the dayto buy popular religious books as fast as they come out, and lay them on your tableto attend meetingsto subscribe to Societiesto discuss the merits of preachersto be enthusiastic and excited about every new form of sensational religion which crops upall these are now comparatively easy and common attainments. They no longer make a person singular. They require little or no sacrifice. They entail no cross. By J.c. Ryle Lotlike Lingering Abounds Live Days

I'm very religious, you know. Now, OK, if by 'religious', you mean that I go to church every Sunday, read the bible faithfully, and I listen to Debbie Boone, umm, I'm not religious in that sense ... But if by 'religious' you mean that I love others and try to help them whenever possible ... Again, no. But if by 'religious' you mean that I like to eat coleslaw ... Yeah, OK, OK! By Emo Philips Religious Religious Sunday Boone Debbie

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key. By Clarence Clemons Word Spiritual Religious Key

Godliness is practical religion. By Orville Dewey Godliness Religion Practical

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. By Clifford Geertz Pervasive Moods Conceptions Powerful Realistic

For what is religion if not a great mystery? It is nothing if not a series of clues, a key to unlocking the greatest secrets of the universe. The careful detective will spend as much time pondering the spiritual mysteries as he does on whatever singular problem has crossed his path on any given day. Guide to the Criminal and Commonplace, M. C. Wheaton By Rachel Mcmillan Mystery Religion Great Commonplace Wheaton

Am I religious? I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Consternation." We are as celibate as fifty percent of the heterosexual Roman Catholic clergy. By Kurt Vonnegut Religious Consternation Religion Lady Perpetual

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. By Albert Einstein Ends Intelligence Clear Interrelationship Fundamental

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment. By Gregory S. Paul Popular Environment Religion Coping Mechanism

Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow. By William James Acts Feelings Solitude Divine Religion

An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love. By Elbert Hubbard Work Play Breathe Bathe Study

Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it. By Christopher Hitchens Religion Transfigured Kind Involves Promise

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness. By Youssef Ziedan Consciousness Analyze Religious Knowledge

I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic By Aamir Khan Religious Fanatic Spiritual

Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen. By Krista Tippett Strong Thrive Religious Identities Survive

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By Samuel Chase Religion Concern Depend Measure Government

The word religion literally means, in Latin, to link or bind together; and despite the vast variation in the world's religions, Wilson shows that religions always serve to coordinate and orient people's behavior toward each other and toward the group as a whole, sometimes for the purpose of competing with other groups. By Jonathan Haidt Latin Wilson Religions Word Literally

I'm a spiritual person. By Katharine Mcphee Person Spiritual

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer. By Philip Pullman Person Believer Religious

Do not always act out of religion By Sunday Adelaja Religion Act

most of the world is bubbling with religious passions."1 By Phil Zuckerman Passions World Bubbling Religious

Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude. By Nelson Mandela Religion World Important Christian Muslim

I an not saying that religious ideas are nothing but a cover for political motives [...]. Instead, I intend to show that religious insights and moral choices, in actual experience, coincide with practical ones. By Elaine Pagels Motives Religious Ideas Cover Political

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious. By Henry Ward Beecher Religious Man Religion God Lord

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional. By Dean Hamer Spirituality Personal Religion Institutional Intensely

Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him. By Philip Doddridge Religion Sense God View Soul

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. By Emile Durkheim Church Practices Things Religion Unified

There is a phrase for this that has become quite common: "I'm spiritual but not religious." Polls show that some 20 percent of Americans identify overall with that phrase. And some polls have shown that, in the younger generation - those between eighteen and twenty-nine - this percentage explodes to an astonishing 75 percent!2 In other words, three out of four young individuals have a deep spiritual yearning that no existing religion is addressing. By Ken Wilber Common Religious Phrase Percent Spiritual

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them. By Jacob Neusner Religion People Face Urgent Problems

I'm evangelical. By Pat Robertson Evangelical

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone. By Kodo Sawaki Religion Life Completely Living Fresh

Genius is religious. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius Religious

Religion is a light in the fog. By Edie Brickell Religion Fog Light

Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith. By Adolf Hitler Existence Ideas Designation Religious Convictions

To be religious is not to feel, but to be. By Reinhold Niebuhr Feel Religious

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. By Meghan O'rourke Catholics Irish Indoctrinated Child Lapsed

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. By Muhammad Naguib Religion Lantern Candle Inside Multicolored

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. By Immanuel Kant Religion Commands Recognition Duties Divine

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training. By Robert Vaughn Training Childhood Beliefs Part Today

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself. By George Meyer Religious Baby Girl Fourmonth Religion

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. By Abraham Joshua Heschel Greatest God Man Compassion Despair

Religion is a system of human norms and values that is founded on belief in a superhuman order. By Yuval Noah Harari Religion Order System Human Norms

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes. By Uri Geller Religious Man Jewish God Religions

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. By Jon Meacham Experience Sensibility Religious Faith Intrinsic

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous. By Friedrich Nietzsche Daily Life Empty Monotonous People

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music. By Igor Stravinsky Years Made Belief Evaluate Events

Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death. By Max More Religion Technology Meaning Direction Life

Religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should. By Deepak Chopra Tool Religion Unity Mismanaged Bind

I don't approve of religion. By Ayn Rand Religion Approve

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. By Richard Dawkins Reflection Religiousness Sense Experienced Mind

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men. By Jonathan Edwards Temper Pursuit Religion Purity Leading