I was born and raised Catholic, so it’s in my blood. I don’t go to church… I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion. – Tom Araya
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin. – Simon Greenleaf
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So it’s now possible to carry the religion, that is embedded in that writing, away from the ruins of political and military power. – Simon Schama
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion. – Sufjan Stevens
Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent. – Wole Soyinka
I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas – it’s always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal. – Youssou N’Dour
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. – Voltaire
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience. – Sean Brady
The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact – the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge. – Simon Greenleaf
I think ‘The Searcher’ is a departure from my first because it’s less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out. – Simon Toyne
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music – participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. – Will Oldham
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. – Taslima Nasrin
The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal. – Yair Lapid
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else. – Walter Koenig
True religion… is giving and finding one’s happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. – William J. H. Boetcker
We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change. – Serj Tankian
That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. – Sri Aurobindo
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. – William T. Vollmann
I’m not really any religion. I still study with Jehovah’s Witnesses, so I say I’m Apostolic Pentecostal Jehovah’s Witness Seventh-Day Adventist Jew. – Tyka Nelson
I think it’s imperative to have faith or religion, because it’s good to have morals, to be kind to others. – Tinie Tempah
The notion that religion can actually be something… attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn’t have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church. – Simon Schama
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. – Thomas Szasz
If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education. – William Jennings Bryan
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. – Tori Amos