If something is in me which can be called religious then…

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

— Auguste Rodin

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe…

— Albert Einstein

“Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything else means…

— Wayne W. Dyer

There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason…

— Edgar Snow

“The tender plant of spirituality will die if exposed too early to the action of a constant change of ideas and ideals. Many people,…

— Swami Vivekananda

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

I do think that religion has turned a lot of people off. Part of it is because it was all about the rules and…

— Joel Osteen

“Jesus Christ, with His divine understanding of every understanding of our human nature, understood that not all men were called to the religious life,…

— James Joyce

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

— Samuel Smiles

“Most Christians seem to have two kinds of lives, their so-called real life and their so-called religious one. Not (C. S.) Lewis. The barrier…

— Walter Hooper

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior…

— H. L. Mencken

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal…

— Caroline Fraser

“All the rainbow banners were still there; the storm [Katrina] had left them intact. Interesting that the gay and bawdy sections of town were…

— J.M. Redmann

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must…

— Garrett Hardin