Art and Religion are then two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art there can be moments of God.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

I think there's been a big problem between religion or organized religion and spirituality.

Oh there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

The first act of religion therefore concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

If there ever was a militant religion it was that of early New England.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family to religion to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First in the Russian Orthodox religion there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

Is woman a religion? Well perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.