Pastoral Resources

Yoga is not a religion to me.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.