Tamilisai Soundararajan Quotes

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

My family is very religious.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Religion is such a path with people.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude.

Above all, India is the land of religion.

I was raised in the church.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

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

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.