Laura Riding Quotes

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

I have a very strong connection with God, very strong sense of my faith.

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society' because the former have religion.

I believe in God, but I also believe in jinxes.

My grandmother and my upbringing filled me with the spirit of the church and the spirit of the faith brought by Africans to the new land during slavery.

I understand that not everyone shares my faith and some find it difficult to reconcile with their own beliefs.

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.

All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another.

If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.

One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

I participated in many different rituals, but for me, I'm very spiritual and I believe that there's definitely be a greater force that defines us and leads us. For sure. No question for me.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.