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Religion

Im fascinated with all kinds of religion, but Im not committed to any specific one. – Sheryl Lee

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I dont agree with organized religion in that respect. – Hunter Parrish

I read Christopher McDougalls book Born to Run. If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race. – Jennifer Carpenter

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didnt have religion. – Bernice Johnson Reagon

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they dont want to hear any of that. – Pat Boone

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We dont dictate those terms. – Larry Harvey

Ive been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. – Tom Perrotta

I think Im fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, its impossible to ignore. – Tom Perrotta

One should not stand at the foot of a sick persons bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. – Jewish Folk Saying

A maker of idols is never an idolater. – Chinese Proverb

He who is near the Church is often far from God. – Proverb

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. – Proverb

I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Abigail Adams

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. – Robert Altman

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. – Kingsley Amis

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. – Thomas Aquinas

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. – Daisy Ashford

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with Gods work. – Brooks Atkinson

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. – W. H. Auden