Wesley Snipes Quotes

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

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.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.

I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.