Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

I don't have a religion, but I respect them.

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

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

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

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.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Theology is unnecessary.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.