We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality… what we are getting is lacking in vision… not able to engage with the diversity of the culture. – John O’Donohue
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. – Jerry Falwell
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. – Jonathan Swift
I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims. – Ian Mckellen
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin
I don’t believe in organized religion – I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff. – Jonathan Davis
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion. – Juliana Hatfield
My religion centers in different areas than what’s considered conventional religion. – Jack Kevorkian
God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead. – Jay Parini
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. – Joseph Smith, Jr.
There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. – James Larkin
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual. – Ja Rule
Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that’s when you start looking at business in a different way. – Jochen Zeitz
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. – Joseph Campbell
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. – Julia Ward Howe
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. – Joyce Carol Oates
Who made these laws? That’s what I want to know. So that’s why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion. – Ja Rule
When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence. – John Lewis
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people’s business. – Jesse Ventura
The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on. – Julian Baggini
I have values. But morals are Christian. There’s no religion here. Values. Don’t hurt when you don’t need to, but don’t let anybody step over that line – it’s an invisible line, but it’s respect for somebody’s space. – John Lydon
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion. – James Frey
Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can’t sell himself. – Jon Meacham
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. – John Henry Newman
It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in ‘religion.’ I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school. – John Eldredge
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes. – James Randi