Almost Quote by Elaine Pagels

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

— Frances Wright

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became…

— Karen Armstrong

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

— Mario Cuomo

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion…

— David Dark

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed…

— John Henrik Clarke

Religion is not something to be believed in, but something to be lived, something to be experienced...not a belief in your mind but the…

— Osho

I offer early Christianity as a case-study to show that the phenomena that we group under "religion(s)" comprise a somewhat artificial category, and that…

— Larry Hurtado

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

— Deepak Chopra

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated…

— Bertrand Russell

Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

— John Baillie