"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 DouglasTweet
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." - Dalai LamaTweet
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion." - William HazlittTweet
"Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise." - Jonathan SacksTweet
"The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion." - Kristin HershTweet
"My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him." - Mahatma GandhiTweet
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit." - Felix AdlerTweet
"God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life." - Swami VivekanandaTweet
"I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people." - Kenneth Robert LivingstoneTweet
"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there." - Bonnie RaittTweet