Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's. - Steven Barnes We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. - Dalai Lama Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. - Eric Gill But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions. - Temple Grandin Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. - Mark Hopkins Primitive societies without religion have never been found. - William Dean Howells Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the ...

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. - Toni Cade Bambara I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known. - Mary Doria Russell

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart? - Jodi Picoult As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think. - Wendell Berry Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soo...

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code. - Mark Twain Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace - John Lennon This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. - John Adams No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. - Felix Adler No religion with a universal message... under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds. - Mirza Tahir Ahmad If by religion we are to u...

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. - Elie Wiesel 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

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others. - Sri Aurobindo The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang. - Carl Sagan

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears. - Emil Cioran I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. - Carl Sagan Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudce. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. - Eleanor Roosevelt Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions. - Jeanpierre Raffarin We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this. - Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright ...

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion. - Elizabeth Gilbert I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard].... They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them. - Margaret Atwood The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. - Dave Barry That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what...