#religion

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

— Voltaire

#money #question #religion #same

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#aloud #consideration #inevitably #leads #life

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#art #culture #history #how #iconography

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#between #children #difference #handing #over

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

— John Updike

#good #good story #inner #lets #old

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

— Peter Ustinov

#easy way #habit #oppressive #out #religion

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#civilisation #conflict #conquest #emigration #ever

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. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#ancient #blindly #close #comfort #conservative

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. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#beliefs #concern #currently #deep #each

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#admire #am #i #i am #i can