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Quotes About Expression

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.
~ Dogen
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
~ C.S. Lewis
I got my own way of praying.
~ Tom Petty
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
~ Charles Dickens
Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.
~ Pope Francis
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
~ James Martineau
My religion lies in my composition.
~ John Philip Sousa
I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
~ Muhammad Ali
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
~ Anagarika Govinda
I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
~ Rosanne Cash
Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
~ Octavio Paz
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.
~ Joseph C. Aldrich
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
~ Ben Carson
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.
~ Karl Kraus
Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
~ Winston Churchill
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
~ Kristin Hersh
I don't bring religion into the square.
~ Tony Abbott
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.
~ Lupe Fiasco
Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.
~ William C. Brown