#religion

"I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion."

"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."

"إن عبادة الإله الواحد وحدها ستقرب الانسان من السلام الذي يتكلم عليه الجميع ولايفعل أحد شيئاً لتحقيقه."

"The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true."

"What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition."

"Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise."(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim)"

"If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship."

"If my name were C. Ross, I’d definitely be religious."

"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us"

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."

"I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not."

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"All men are Prophets or else God does not exist."

"Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it."

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."

"Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil."

"If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason."