“I think God is like the president of a giant corporation, and Buddha, Muhammad, and Jesus are his sales guys, and they… — Steve Peek Copy Share Image
For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is inadmissible that systems of ideas like religions, which have held so considerable a place in history, and to which, in… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. ... I think the people of our religion should be… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there’s a fire in your life and you ask God, “Lord, let me go around the fire.” And God says, “No.”… — Lydia Thornton Copy Share Image
The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling… — Deborra-Lee Furness Copy Share Image
“Look on the effect of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their fantastical claims. Look at what they… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity.… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“...religions all have the same timeline...First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear.… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is… — Rima Fakih Copy Share Image
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I agree with those who argue that it is possible to distil from the religions of the world their common values and… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions?… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Religions are confluences of organic-cultural flows that intensify joy and confront suffering by drawing on human and supra-human forces to make homes… — Thomas A. Tweed Copy Share Image
We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image