“If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.”
Religion asks the biggest questions and offers answers that millions of people organize their lives around. These quotes approach faith traditions with respect and curiosity, exploring belief, doubt, ritual, and the search for something larger than yourself.
“A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.”
“If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.”
“Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.”
“Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.”
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.”
“There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.”
“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
“The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.”
“Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.”
“Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.”
“Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.”
“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.”
“Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.”
“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.”
“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.”