Turkish Dept. of Religious Affairs Quotes

My religion lies in my composition.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Religion is for God, and the country is for everyone.

Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always.

Being a Muslim is very important to me, more important than anything, although sometimes travel makes it difficult for me to always pray when I want to.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I speak to God every day.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.