Religious Quotes

Painting’ and ‘religious experience’ are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?

That’s the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I’m the most interested in – like the questions that religion takes on.

I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious.

What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.

And I think that, for those of us that aren’t religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices