The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

All movements go too far.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

I am a Catholic.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.