The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered... →
Adam Savage
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
Philip Schaff
The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words... →
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they... →
Simon Schama
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion... →
The Jews invented a portable religion in the shape of the Bible, the Torah, and eventually the Talmud, and with other portable forms of writing. So... →
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition... →
I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.
Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.
Sydney Schanberg