I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Toleration is the best religion.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Religion comes from the word 're' or again and 'ligare' meaning to bind or tie back. The purpose of religion is to unite the self with God or the creative force. Music, sacred spaces, and meaningful icons are the way we conjoin our minds with the transcendental.
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
There can be no truce between science and religion.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
It is my sincere hope that every person in India will experience true freedom of faith, regardless of religion.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.
The more I learned about religion in Africa, the more intrigued I became. It was as if the continent was gripped with religious fervor. And the center of it was Uganda.
