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Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a…

— Nelson Mandela

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they…

— Frans de Waal

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

— Alexis Carrel

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor…

— Jonathan Sacks

The mission of religion in the twenty-first century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind. Religious faith can helpfoster a…

— Senora Roy

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the…

— John Henry Newman

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from…

— Robert Wright

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same…

— Dalai Lama

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and…

— Emile Durkheim

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

— Dalai Lama

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

— Jacob Neusner