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Religion

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether its people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But its also a cause for war and bloodshed. – Josh Gad

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a members freedom of thought and action. – Robert Shea

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And thats usually what I focus on. – Don Henley

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or youre going to repeat it and if youre burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you dont get it, youre missing the whole point. – Michael Berryman

I have my own religion. Im sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. – Tom T. Hall

My theory is if you have a religion, its a good one. Because some people dont have any at all. – Tom T. Hall

I dont practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. – Simon Callow

People dont talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because its not an incredibly safe place to do it. – Zachary Levi

What I miss today more than anything else – I dont go to church as much anymore – but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. – Ernest Gaines

And what is religion, you might ask. Its a technology of living. – Toni Cade Bambara

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isnt alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. – Flora Lewis

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it. – Ken Follet

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. Its as close as I get to a religion. – Kristin Hersh

Its very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics. – Asghar Farhadi

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then arent Catholic anymore, like any religion. – Danny Masterson

I dont think you need religion. – Terry Jones

The question of religion was a matter for each individuals conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. – James Larkin

It doesnt make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference. – Norma McCorvey

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think Im the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I dont believe. I am constantly between the two. – Anjelica Huston

Im not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldnt write them today because of my religion. – Louise Mensch