I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

I broke with my religion in college.

Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.