If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.