Quotes About Understanding

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.