The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

My religion lies in my composition.

I'm still a person a human being no matter what religion I am.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

If there is a God atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned one God the God I adhere to is in charge of all of them.

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 do engineering not religion.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.