It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

In other words a person who is fanatic in matters of religion and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Yet higher religion which is only a search for a larger life is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

I like the religion that teaches liberty equality and fraternity.

Let them be reassured it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man toward God.

Religion is not only a part of education an element of humanity but the center of everything else always the first and the ultimate the absolutely original.

If we have to give up either religion or education we should give up education.

My children to the extent that they have found religion have found it from me in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto then must not be confined to matters of religion education and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

At the bottom of education at the bottom of politics even at the bottom of religion there must be for our race economic independence.

In my childhood America was like a religion. Then real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region then this affects everything. It affects your dreams your fantasies and relationships and your religion becomes violent too.

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact it is their plan and design to kill people.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point if you're lucky you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

In Goddess religion death is not feared but is understood to be a part of life followed by birth and renewal.