I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. – Pete Seeger
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. – Ruth St. Denis
Religion can be both good and bad – it is spirituality that counts. – Pat Buckley
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish. – Barbara Walters
Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. – Gary Locke
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. – Jeane Kirkpatrick
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. – Herbert Read
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. – Herbert Read
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. – Herbert Read
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. – Arnold J. Toynbee
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. – Edward Bond
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. – Vaclav Klaus
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. – George Byron
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. – Ernestine Rose
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. – Hannah More
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. – Ralph W. Sockman
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. – Mohammed Naguib
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. – Sri Chinmoy
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. – Neal Boortz
