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Religion

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. – Donald Cargill

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there. – Natalie Portman

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. – John B. S. Haldane

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. – Jeremy Taylor

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. – Heinrich Heine

Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. – Margaret Cho

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. – Walter Savage Landor

Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion. – Israel Zangwill

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. – Eddie Izzard

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? – Eddie Izzard

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society. – Jonathan Sacks

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? – Jonathan Sacks

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good… There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. – Jonathan Sacks

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. – Karen Armstrong

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one. – Sophia Bush

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion. – Christy Turlington

Yoga is not a religion to me. – Christy Turlington