#religion

Islam is not man's ultimate justification to do as he pleases--it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community. ↗

— Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin

#religion #thought #religion

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#fear #himself #invisible #natural #religion

My life was changed in one breath from God. ↗

— Donna Summer

#breath #changed #god #life #my life

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#going #had #healthy #i #iconoclastic

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#caught #contrary #death #drama #harmony

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

I'm religiously opposed to religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#opposed #religion #religiously

Toleration is the best religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#religion #toleration

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#art #degree #europe #large #place

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. ↗

— King Hussein I

#between #clear #dialogue #difference #heart