I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Buttressed by an acceptance of female wisdom in the sacred sphere from the beginnings of organised religion 12,000 years ago to late antiquity and beyond, key women used wit and the power of the word to change the world around them.

I disagree with a couple of the stances of the Catholic Church. My older brother is gay, and it's important for me to be able to love him completely and freely, and it's important for me to spread beliefs in the world that are not going to limit people in their love. I can't support a religion that doesn't support my brother.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.

Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and reaction and often is the least important of those factors.

I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.