George Santayana Quotes

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

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.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

My family is very religious.

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

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

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

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

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

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

I was raised in the church.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

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.

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.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.

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

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

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.

Faith is an important part of the fabric of our society.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

Religion is such a path with people.

I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.