Quotes About Religion

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.

There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.

The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.

AAP does secular politics.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

I now believe in God for my own ends. I'm not an altruistic Christian - I'm only doing it in case there is in fact a Heaven.

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City, and later when we went to Oxford before we got married, we always went to the Catholic church.

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

Well I've been crystal clear that we should not have schools which are set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond the pale organization.