Quotes About Religion

The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.

I do recognize and I feel very comfortable with people taking a good look at how I've lived my life, and obviously my faith is a big part of that.

I make a clear distinction between the people and the ideology, between Muslims and Islam, recognizing that there are many moderate Muslims.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

For the record, I believe in God, but I do not believe in religion, period.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Commanded by God dozens of times in the Hebrew Bible to remember their past, Jews historically obeyed not by recording events but by ritually re-enacting them: by understanding the present through the lens of the past.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Liberals want to amend our country's history to eradicate the role of Christianity in America and chisel references to God or faith from our historical buildings.

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.

My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.