The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Energy energy? Energy is is it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

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.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

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

In course of time religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.