Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures…

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

— Richard Rohr

“A religion that does not give inner peace, it cannot be called a religion, can it?”

— Dada Bhagwan

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

— Nancy Pearcey

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach…

— Anna Sewell

I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a…

— Richard Dawkins

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

— John Irving

“Religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human…

— Timothy J. Keller

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith…

— Anonymous

“Because art does for me what religion does-- it organizes a seemingly chaotic world. Because it is my way of making sense of the…

— Bill T. Jones

“The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.”

— Susan Griffin

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived,…

— C. S. Lewis

Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“The teachings of a religion should influence the personality and daily conduct of each believer. Thus, each person's conduct will normally be a reflection,…

— Anonymous

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he…

— Roger Williams

Once we as humans understand that we are responsible for our own actions and religion does not give you a free pass to do…

— David Hutchinson