Sonny Bono Quotes

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

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.

While the world may be dramatizing, the Scientologists are out there, making the “Saints of yesteryear”, look like little children

Conversion to Christianity was my ticket of admission into European culture

Why don’t you become a Moslem?

I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

My mom was Roman Catholic, my dad was part of.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

I did grow up in a southern Christian background, and I have friends from all walks of life, but I will never forget from where I came.

I used to fast during Ramadan because I admired the people fasting around me. What made me convert was that I had that certainty that Islam was for me. I felt this relationship with God, and that enlightened my life. I had that conviction in my heart that that was my religion.

I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.

Scientology is completely irrelevant to any of the talks that have been given to me.

I completely understand why people would find the Church intolerable. I'm not the least bit surprised when people seek to leave it, though I miss them and I wish they'd stay. But I sometimes think you leave to come back, and that's certainly true in my case.

My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.

God is for men, and religion for women.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.