What is religion? – My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness says Dalai Lama. Explore our collection of Religion Quotes and broden the perspective on different religions.

1. People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. — Carrie-Anne Moss
2. Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. — Talib Kweli
3. It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use… The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air. — James Lovelock
4. I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it that’s my religion. — Alice Walker
5. A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime. — Edgar Allan Poe
6. There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That’s why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. — Jesse Ventura
9. The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. — Charles Eastman
10. Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. — Benito Mussolini
11. We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us. — Saint Teresa of Avila
12. If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. — Charles Spurgeon
13. The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. — Herman Hesse
14. Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. — Linda Chavez
15. Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. — Huston Smith
16. For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. — Albert Ellis
17. Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. — Paul Bert
18. Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call ‘lightly religious.’ So I don’t buy the notion that we can’t laugh about religion in America. — Trey Parker
21. What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others. — Tony Campolo
22. Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn’t manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. — Jeane Kirkpatrick
24. We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. — William Robertson Smith
25. If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we’re man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be. — Ziggy Marley
26. In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. — Carol P. Christ
27. If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! — Blaise Pascal
28. I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. — Herbert Read

30. I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases. — J. Michael Straczynski
31. A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion. — Christy Turlington
32. Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion. — Billy Graham
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33. Most people don’t want to talk about politics and religion. They say, ‘Let’s talk about something else.’ — Prince
35. Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. — Bonnie Raitt
36. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin
37. I can’t understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that’s not religion, that’s not helping humanity, that’s organizing an army to defeat somebody. — Mojo Nixon
39. I don’t have a religion. I believe in a God. I don’t know what it looks like but it’s MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural. — Jennifer Aniston
40. 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
42. I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
43. I’m a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me. — Youssou N’Dour
44. I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. — Dean Koontz
46. When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. — Mahatma Gandhi
47. We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. — H. L. Mencken
48. Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial. — Erma Bombeck
49. You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion. — Midge Ure
50. It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. — Helen Keller
51. 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
52. Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. — John Henrik Clarke
53. Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. — Muhammad Iqbal
54. Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. — Joyce Carol Oates
55. When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. — Karen Armstrong
56. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe. — Elie Wiesel
57. Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. — Thomas Paine
58. I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. — Karen Armstrong

60. As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. — Pierre Beaumarchais
61. There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. — Polly Toynbee
62. I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. — Patrick Henry
63. I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. — Pete Seeger
64. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
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65. The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. — Billy Sunday
67. We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. — Tom Baker
68. So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don’t want to hear any of that. — Pat Boone
69. Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. — George Santayana
70. Who’s to say that there is any more support for Freud’s psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? — Tony Campolo
71. I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. — George W. Bush
72. Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. — David Mamet
73. Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it’s so little known about it which surprised me. — Moustapha Akkad
75. I’m not a religious person, and I’m not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples. — Ian MacKaye
76. I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. — Will Smith
77. Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I’m nothing without it. — Nicole Scherzinger
78. 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
79. We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. — Paulo Coelho
80. India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. — Sri Aurobindo
81. The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism. — Taslima Nasrin
82. A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
83. Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. — Hannah More
84. I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature. — Neil Young
86. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. — Edmund Burke
87. All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion. — Abdurrahman Wahid
88. Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man’s own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. — Charles Baudelaire
89. My theory is if you have a religion, it’s a good one. Because some people don’t have any at all. — Tom T. Hall

90. I’m interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine. — Giancarlo Esposito
91. You can’t write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I’m very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. — Geraldine Brooks
92. There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. — Junius
93. I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. — Orson Welles
94. I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. — Howard Stern
95. After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn’t mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It’s a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. — Stephen Harper
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97. I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. — Baruch Spinoza
98. I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. — Mary Augusta Ward
99. The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. — John B. S. Haldane
100. Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
101. The secret of a person’s nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it. — James Anthony Froude
102. Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone. — Abu Bakar Bashir
103. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. — C. S. Lewis
104. We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he’s given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. — Duane Chapman
105. The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing. — Abel Ferrara
106. And let me make this very clear – unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America’s first liberty: the freedom of religion. — Mitt Romney
107. The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. — John Cornyn
108. It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late. — Pearl S. Buck
109. 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. — Charley Pride
110. Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other. — Josh McDowell
111. Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home. — Bear Grylls
113. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
114. For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness. — Randall Terry
115. Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don’t want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. — Karen Armstrong
117. As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
118. The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. — Alexis de Tocqueville
119. Religion, you can’t a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don’t believe. — Dennis Potter

120. When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. — Frank Herbert
121. I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn’t. — Jack Dee
122. Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it’s the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what’s the point of having religion if you can’t disapprove of other people? — Karen Armstrong
123. My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other. — Rick Wakeman
124. Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ‘lives’ his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. — G. I. Gurdjieff
125. The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It’s as close as I get to a religion. — Kristin Hersh
126. I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. — Barney Frank
127. We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. — Jonathan Swift
128. If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. — H. P. Lovecraft
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129. Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. — Alexis Carrel
130. Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. — Paul Tournier
131. Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known. — Blaise Pascal
132. Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
133. Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it’s nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion. — Tony Wilson
135. The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. — William Robertson Smith
136. Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. — Kenneth Scott Latourette
137. I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism. — Cat Stevens
138. The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. — Michael Behe
139. I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. — Peter Jennings
140. We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. — George A. Smith
142. We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it’s surest support. — George Washington
143. I’m fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I’m not committed to any specific one. — Sheryl Lee
144. The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. — John Maynard Keynes
145. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. — C. S. Lewis
146. Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. — William Robertson Smith
147. I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians. — Luke Ford
148. If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. — Margaret Atwood
149. There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don’t think my generation wants that. That’s how it used to be. — ASAP Rocky

150. Haven’t two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can’t convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks. — Kevin Smith
151. There’s a couple things you don’t talk about in life, and that’s race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don’t talk about politics at all. — Robert Griffin III
152. If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. — Naguib Mahfouz
153. With religion I was always like, ‘Does it matter if it’s true if it makes you happy?’ — Matt Stone
154. If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. — Brian Eno
156. It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. — Mahatma Gandhi
157. If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. — Martin Amis
158. Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud
159. I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I’m not judgmental. And I’m a vegetarian. — Erykah Badu
160. The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. — Ben Kingsley
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161. Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. — Karl Barth
163. Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
165. We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. — Bill Maher
167. You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government. — Marco Rubio
168. With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world. — Jerry Costello
169. Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. — Mary Douglas
171. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. — Lucille Ball
173. Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. — George Gurdjieff
174. Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. — Mary Garden
175. Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers. — Carol P. Christ
177. I love it when the left and when the president say, ‘Don’t try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.’ They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self. — Rick Santorum
178. Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. — Arthur Schopenhauer
179. I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn’t make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy… I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. — Patrick Rothfuss

180. All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision. — Maria Monk
181. The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. — Tori Amos
182. Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. — E. O. Wilson
183. If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, ‘He’s avoiding it.’ If I do talk about it, it becomes, ‘Oh, he’s proselytizing.’ — Tom Cruise
184. If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. — Napoleon Bonaparte
185. Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
186. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths. — Muhammad Ali
188. Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it. — Alan Watts
189. The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written. — Arlen Specter
191. Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren’t Catholic anymore, like any religion. — Danny Masterson
192. So, basically, my view is I don’t want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it’s not like it’s a religion for me. It’s not like I consider I’m polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips. — Peter Singer
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194. Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner
196. It’s also reflective of a young person’s religion or faith in that it’s highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. — Daniel Berrigan
197. There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. — Eugene Ionesco