Country Quote by Henry Parry Liddon

Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

“it is a messy process for a culture to abandon its deities. Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age…

— Dan Brown

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

— Heinrich Heine

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

— William O. Douglas

“Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely…

— Robert A. Johnson

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

— Larry Graham

Culture is religion incarnate.

— Charles Colson

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

— Mahatma Gandhi