There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.