As a chef you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients you have to respect that.

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

I'm not religious but I believe that what I have is a gift and I respect it and live up to it.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people including fundamentalists are quite intelligent many of them are highly educated and they should be treated with complete respect.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable and have every word received with a religious respect.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary profound and alive.

Our moral religious and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion without being a religious person for about a decade.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.