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I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.
– Tom Perrotta
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I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
– Damien Hirst
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I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
– Andrea Riseborough
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I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.
– Katherine Heigl
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I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.
– Dee Dee Ramone
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I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.
– Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
– E. O. Wilson
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
– Bertrand Russell
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I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
– Jennifer Carpenter
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
– Jonathan Swift
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I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.
– Jewel Kilcher
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I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
– Tina Turner
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
– Keanu Reeves
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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
– Elton John
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I love religion.
– Jessica Simpson
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I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.
– Rick Santorum
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
– Criss Angel
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I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.
– Chris Matthews
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I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.
– Shahrukh Khan
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I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.
– Hunter Parrish
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
– Vera Farmiga
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I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
– Pete Seeger
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I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
– Ken Follet
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I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.
– Alice Cooper
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I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
– Tom T. Hall
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
– Mary Douglas
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
– Ram Dass
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I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.
– Sela Ward
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I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'
– Cher
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I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
– Don Henley
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
– Julia Child
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I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.
– Trey Parker
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
– Barbara Walters
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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I don't think you need religion.
– Terry Jones
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I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.
– Sean Hannity
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I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
– Christopher Hitchens
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I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
– Simon Callow
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I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.
– Dave Chappelle
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I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
– Will Smith
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I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
– Jennifer Aniston
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
– Imelda Staunton
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I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
– Charley Pride
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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.
– Alice Walker
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
– Ian Mcewan
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
– Baruch Spinoza
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
– A. N. Wilson
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
– Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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I do engineering, not religion.
– Daniel J. Bernstein
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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
– Luke Ford
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
– Gary Numan
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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
– Luke Ford
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I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.
– Amber Tamblyn
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I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
– Giovanni Ribisi
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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
– Herbert Read
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I broke with my religion in college.
– Anne Rice
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I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
– Tom Tancredo
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I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.
– Jane Seymour
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I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.
– James Van Der Beek
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
– Peter Jennings
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I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
– Erykah Badu
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
– Karen Armstrong
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I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
– Donny Osmond
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
– Patrick Wilson
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
– Charles Lamb
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
– Oriana Fallaci
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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
– Albert Einstein
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.
– J. Michael Straczynski
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I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
– Anne McCaffrey
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
– Patrick Rothfuss
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
– Yann Martel
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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
– Andrew Sullivan
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Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
– Dave Barry
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History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
– Eva Herzigova
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Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
– Paul Ryan
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
– Maimonides
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Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
– Kevin Smith
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Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
– John Cale
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
– Desmond Tutu
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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
– Robert South
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
– Swami Sivananda
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Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
– Johannes Tauler
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
– David Hume
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
– Randall Terry
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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
– Albert Ellis
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
– Lionel Blue
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For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
– John C. Ransom
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For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.
– Kathie Lee Gifford
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
– Lactantius
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
– Barbara Walters
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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
– Huston Smith
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Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
– ASAP Rocky
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Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
– David Eagleman
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
– Huston Smith
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
– Walter Savage Landor
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
– Karen Armstrong
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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
– Phil Ochs
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
– Walter Savage Landor
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