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.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring my grounding the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First in the Russian Orthodox religion there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

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.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents but grow out of the very essence of religion namely its absolute claims.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

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.

In science a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity whereas in religion having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

With religion I was always like 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

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.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

All the different nations in the world despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life still have one thing in common and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone because it says 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps you lift heavy weight as heavy as you can handle and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

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

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

To play June I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book too.