Huston Smith Quotes

My religion lies in my composition.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

The word "religion" beautifully defines itself, of course. It translates "to bind" from the Latin--"re" means back and "ligare" means to tie up. All religions are straightjackets, jackets for the straight.

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

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

All religions have been made by men.

I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system of worship to suit the needs of the race or nation to whom it was given. A primitive people cannot respond to a lofty and sublime religion, and vice versa.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: - God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

One man's cult is another man's religion.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.