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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

~ Eckhart Tolle

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

~ Billy Sunday

People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

~ B. R. Ambedkar

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.

~ Jay-Z

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

~ Daniel Morgan

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

~ John Shelby Spong

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

~ Ridley Scott

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

~ Thomas Aquinas

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

~ Bill Nye

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

~ Arthur Wellesley

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

~ Jane Elliot

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

~ Courtney Love

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

~ Andrew Sullivan

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

~ Clarence Darrow

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

~ Vera Farmiga

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

~ Abdolkarim Soroush

In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

~ Barry Humphries

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

~ Erwin Mcmanus

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

~ Dalai Lama

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

~ Clint Eastwood

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

~ Ridley Scott

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

~ Michael Caine

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

~ John Ruskin

A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.

~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

~ Annie Besant

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

~ Paul Cézanne

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

~ Karen Armstrong

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

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

~ Andrew Greeley

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

~ Paul Rand

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

~ Larry Harvey

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

~ Jim Rohn

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

~ Maya Angelou

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

~ Luigi Pirandello

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

~ Donna Karan

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

~ Tupac Shakur

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

~ Snoop Dogg

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

~ Mary Kay Ash